The idea for Ukrainian Yevgeniya Grippa's new venture of importing wine into Japan to support an old wine production company in her war-torn homeland came after the collapse of her previous business following Russia's invasion in February 2022.Grippa, 38, was born in Donetsk, a city in eastern Ukraine now under Russian occupation. She is hoping to sell sparkling wine produced at the Artwinery wine factory in Bakhmut, near her hometown and a city that has been the scene of some of the ongoing conflict's fiercest fighting.Although Grippa's company Umi Group LLC will officially begin conductin…READ FULL ARTICLE
