Georgia Bar Pours All Russian Vodka Down The Drain, Changes Sign To Support Ukraine

SMYRNA, GA — A Cobb County bar owner made her stance on the Russian troops' invasion of Ukraine very clear.

Ellen Thompson, the owner of longtime neighborhood bar Doc's Food & Spirits, changed the outdoor sign to the Ukrainian flag's colors — blue and yellow — with the phrase "We Support Ukraine" overlaid on top of the flag, Fox 5 Atlanta reported.

She also dumped all the Russian vodka down the drain, and said she wouldn't buy any more of it.

"[Russian President Vladimir] Putin is not getting another cent from Doc's or from my customers," Thompson told the news outlet.

Thompson's decision comes just a day after Total Wine & More announced it would be removing all Russian-made products from its shelves across the nation, including its two Cobb County locations. It's part of a larger effort from bars, liquor stores and restaurants across the country to support Ukraine and its people, symbolic or otherwise.

The Smyrna bar, which has been around since 1981, previously boycotted Russian vodka in 1983.

The boycott came after Georgia Congressman Larry McDonald, along with 268 other passengers, died after a Soviet Union fighter plane shot down the civilian Boeing 747 airliner when it flew into Russian airspace, according to the History, Art & Archives of the U.S. House of Representatives.

A group of veterans grab drinks and food at Doc's frequently, Fox 5 reported. All of them have been watching Putin's military invasion of Ukraine, and all fully support the bar's decision to stop selling Russian vodka.

"Anything that we can do here like Doc's is doing now, symbolic obviously, but it also says we back the Ukrainian people," Robert Gsegner told the news outlet.

Related: Total Wine Removes Russian Alcohol Amid Ukraine Invasion