00:00After dark, the steady hum of diesel generators can be heard all over the city.
00:08Business owners have found ways to deal with the frequent power cuts
00:13caused by Russia's attacks on Ukraine's power grid.
00:16And so have families.
00:22Daria and Serhii are just returning home
00:25with three-year-old Vasya and Sonya, their golden retriever.
00:31They live on the 24th floor.
00:35I once measured how long it takes, without bags, walking calmly like this.
00:43It takes me about five minutes.
00:49Living this high up means that when the power is down,
00:52it's not just the lifts that stop.
00:55The water pumps are out too.
01:00We bought ourselves barrels to collect water.
01:03We have 20 liters here below, 20 liters here, 40 liters here,
01:08and here we have our large-caliber 80 liters.
01:14Water, heating, and Internet can be affected by the planned power cuts
01:19that last for several hours every day.
01:23People who can afford them power lamps and small devices off batteries.
01:29We're into our third year of this war,
01:31so people are adept at using different solutions.
01:34They're keeping entire apartments going.
01:36Looking at our house from the street, you might not realize we have no power.
01:39The lights are on in many flats.
01:41We're lucky here. Some older houses are dark,
01:43and people are still sitting around candles.
01:47They worry about not being able to take their daughter to a shelter
01:51during the air raid when the elevators are out.
01:55But they know that others find themselves in far worse situations.
02:02There are many large cities, like Dnipro, Zaporizhia, Kharkiv,
02:07where there's also no electricity.
02:11Those cities along the front line are full of pensioners who stayed.
02:15These people have nowhere else to go. They can't afford to.
02:19These are the people who are the most vulnerable,
02:21and they are the ones who are suffering badly right now.
02:24And we simply cannot even imagine how difficult it is for them right now.
02:33Ukraine has limited air defense capabilities.
02:35Until that situation improves, the residents of Kiev will rely on their ability
02:40to adapt to another winter of Russian attacks and power cuts.
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