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Freezing and in the dark, Kyiv residents are stranded in tower blocks as Russia targets power system

(24 Jan 2026) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ++NIGHT SHOTS++ ASSOCIATED PRESS Kyiv, Ukraine - 20 January 2026 1. Wide of residential buildings without electricity 2. Wide of cars driving on dark roads 3. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Lyudmila Bachurina, 73, Kyiv resident: ++PART OVERLAID++ "In general, it's cold, but we manage. As soon as the electricity appears, and the electricity appears once every 16-17 hours, but when the light comes on, I start turning on the washing machine, fill water bottles with water, cook food, charge power banks, run around the kitchen, run around the house." 4. Various of 72 year old Lyudmila Bachurina showing ice on her window 5. Various of Bachurina showing her daughter’s wheelchair 6. Various of Bachurina taking electric blanket from her daughter, 53 year-old Olena Janchuk 7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Olena Janchuk, 53, Kyiv resident: ++PART OVERLAID++ "Optimism is our everything. Both me and my mother, we support each other, and my husband. While he is at work, my mother and I are dealing with this. On the one hand we are cut off from this world, but thanks to the fact that we have the Internet, we can communicate with people and we support each other, and generally we go through life with optimism, no matter how difficult it is, in any situation." 8. Various of Bachurina hanging USB-powered light on wall 9. Bachurina with daughter 10. Closeup on makeshift 'fireplace' 11. Various of Janchuk looking at phone 12. Wide of Bachurina heating soup on gas stove 13. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Lyudmila Bachurina, 73, Kyiv resident: ++PART OVERLAID++ "I'm tired, it's really tiring to be honest. When you don't go outside and you don't see the sun, when there's no light and you can't go down to the store to buy something on your own." 14. Close of light 15. SOUNDBITE (Ukraine) Lyudmila Bachurina, 73, Kyiv resident: ++PART OVERLAID++ "But the most important thing, as all Ukrainians say now, is that we will endure anything, until the war ends." 16. Soup cooking on gas stove 17. Wide of residential buildings during blackout STORYLINE: From her high-rise apartment, Olena Janchuk spends another day in freezing isolation. The former kindergarten teacher, who suffers from severe rheumatoid arthritis, has been trapped on the 19th floor – 650 steps from the ground – in her Kyiv tower block for weeks. Long daily blackouts caused by Russia’s bombardment of power plants and transmission lines have made working elevators a luxury. With January temperatures plummeting to -17 Celsius ( (minus 14 degrees Fahrenheit), there’s a permanent line of frost on the inside of Janchuk’s windows, white patterns creeping across the glass by morning. The 53-year-old huddles over a makeshift “fireplace” of candles arranged beneath stacked bricks, designed to absorb and slowly release heat. USB charging cables snake across the floor from overloaded power strips, while her electric blanket is hooked up to a power bank rationed for the coldest hours. By day, the family shifts into rooms that catch the winter sun, the function of each space changing with the blackout schedule. At night, heavy clothes stay on indoors as the apartment cools rapidly without central heating. Kyiv, a city of about 3 million people, is dominated by tower blocks, many from the Soviet era, now left without power for most of the day. In this fourth winter of war, electricity is a rationed commodity. Residents plan their lives around electricity schedules: when to cook, shower, charge phones and run washing machines. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...