Blocks away, at the city’s long-popular Russia House restaurant, five windows have been smashed in and owners are thinking they might not reopen. People line up outside Ukrainian-owned D Light Cafe and Bakery in Washington on Saturday last week. Anastasiia and Vira Derun, sisters and owners of D Light Cafe and Bakery, sit in front of a “Stand With Ukraine” sign in Washington on Tuesday last week. The owners had been on the verge of reopening after a two-year COVID-19 hiatus when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine. Its former name “just brings pain to people of Ukraine and others, even Russians,” Monamour said.

Source: Taipei Times March 12, 2022 22:01 UTC