"Concerned that the power was once again about to be knocked out in her apartment block on Kyiv's left bank the side of the city that has been most affected by Moscow's attacks on energy infrastructure she cooked until 3am, when her flat was plunged into freezing darkness. In a shelter space between two walls, Tetiana and her two children, aged four and 11, sat out the missiles and drones."
"When the wave of attacks ended, like tens of thousands of others, they would have to deal with the aftermath in a prolonged cold snap. Daytime temperatures have dropped to 12C (10F) and as low as -19C at night. While the heat in her block has come back on, like many she must cope with the fact that, despite her having bought storage batteries, all her appliances, including her cooker and the water pump for her block, rely on electricity."
On the night of 9 January, warnings of massive Russian airstrikes preceded a prolonged attack that plunged many Kyiv flats into darkness. A resident cooked through the night before her flat lost power and sheltered with her two young children between walls as missiles and drones passed. The strikes coincided with a severe cold snap, with daytime highs near 12C and nighttime lows around -19C, leaving households without heating for the first 24 hours. Many homes rely entirely on electricity for cooking, water and pumps, and purchased storage batteries have proven insufficient to fully mitigate outages.
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