Скачать или смотреть Ukrainians endure power cuts as Russia renews strikes on energy grid

(21 Oct 2025)
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Shostka, Ukraine - 16 October 2025
1. Wide of café co-owner Bohdan Nikiporets waiting for installation of new generator
2. Mid of generator
3. Various of Nikiporets with generator
4. Pull focus from generator to people
5. Tilt up to electricity cable going into the café
6. Tilt down from café to people talking in street
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Bohdan Nikiporets, co-owner of KK café house:
"Our business runs 16 hours per day. And it's all on power stations, generators, like diesel or fuel generators. So we had to buy another one because one could not run so long. Basically for two weeks we haven't had an hour of light in here. No electricity whatsoever.”
8. Various of a non-functioning Ferris wheel
9. Various of a man carrying and putting generator in car
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Bohdan Nikiporets, co-owner of KK café house:
"There’s of course some fall depression. But we try to run our business so people still get coffee, and we try to cheer them up just a little bit. We keep the prices as low as they used to be before the blackout, even though we have to spend a lot of money on gas.”
11. Various of Nikiporets’ cafe
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Bohdan Nikiporets, co-owner of KK café house:
"Do we have options? We do not. We are being under attack. We're just protecting ourselves.”
13. Wide of people walking down street
14. Mid of generator running
15. Wide of Shostka’s mayor Mikola Noha talking to staff
16. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Mikola Noha, mayor of Shostka:
"The situation is challenging because the Russian aggressors keep destroying our power stations. The town is on a scheduled water and electricity supply. And it really worries the residents as we can’t predict power cuts. We fix something and it gets destroyed again. This is our situation.”
17. Tilt down of dark corridor at local hospital
18. Various of nurse operating a dialyzer
19. Pull focus from dialysis patient to blood flow
20. Close of dialyzer
21. Pan of a doctor talking to dialysis patient Zinaida Kot
22. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Zinaida Kot, hospital patient on dialysis:
"It is my seventh year on dialysis. If there’s no treatment, I would die, I would not exist.”
23. Tilt up to dialyzer
24. Pan to Kot in bed
25. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Zinaida Kot, hospital patient on dialysis:
"It is bad, we're really worried if there is no electricity.”
26. Pan of hospital kitchen staff, Svitlana Zakotei carrying wood for cooking
27. Various of Zakotei loading log into a wood-burning stove
28. Close of fire door
29. Various of Zakotei cooking
30. Various of food in the kitchen
31. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Svitlana Zakotei, hospital diet nurse:
"The situation is hard. But what else we can do? We are united, we are constantly looking for solutions for the challenges we face. It’s hard for everyone. As staff we realized that we must cope and provide food for the people.”
32. Various of electricity technicians fixing a power line
33. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Bohdan Bilous, electrical technician:
"Our task is to restore and provide energy for people. We do our job, that’s it. I feel really bad when something which was rebuilt gets destroyed again. But it’s our job. Who else would do it if not us? Nobody else would do it.”
34. Various of electricity technicians fixing power line
35. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Bohdan Bilous, electrical technician:
"The enemy strikes energy and gas infrastructure again and again. I want to be optimistic and prepared for any situation but the reality is extremely cruel right now.”
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