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(15 Jan 2026)
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Kyiv, Ukraine - 13 January 2026
1. Raisa Derhachova playing piano ++NIGHT SHOTS++
2. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Raisa Derhachova, 89, Kyiv resident: ++NIGHT SHOT++
"I've already gotten used to this terrifying cold. You see what I'm wearing, so many clothes, and none of them are fastened."
3. Derhachova walking into dark room with portable light ++NIGHT SHOTS++
4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Raisa Derhachova, 89, Kyiv resident:  ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT ++
"Of course, it's hard to survive this. We survived World War II, and now this terrible war is upon us."
5. Wide of dark residential building ++NIGHT SHOT++
6. Various of gas stove ++NIGHT SHOTS++
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Tetiana Tatarenko, Kyiv resident: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT5 AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT6&8++
"The walls are cooling down, and it's as if life in the house has stopped, that's the feeling. I walk around in this cold. Thank God, if it had been a week more, it would have been a total nightmare. In our house people's pipes burst when they turned on the heating, so everywhere there are disasters, small and large."
8. Tatarenko walking with candle in dark and showing her parrots ++NIGHT SHOT++

STORYLINE:
Emergency repair crews are working flat out to restore power in the Kyiv region of Ukraine, officials said Wednesday, after relentless Russian barrages on energy infrastructure left Ukrainians at the mercy of the coldest winter in years.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has described the period as the longest and broadest outages since Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor almost four years ago.

Some homes have been without electricity for days.

Apartments in the capital are freezing, and when venturing outside people wear heavy layers of clothes against the bitter cold that chills to the bone.

"I've already gotten used to this terrifying cold. You see what I'm wearing, so many clothes, and none of them are fastened." Kyiv resident Raisa Derhachova, who at 89 years old still remembers the suffering during WWII.

Across Kyiv, snow covers the ground and roofs and is piled up next to sidewalks.

At night, the streets are dark and towering apartment blocks show no light in the windows.

Kyiv residents told the AP how they cope with the lack of light and heat at home.

Tetiana Tatarenko said two of her sons are fighting in the war.

She grew more fearful of Russia’s nighttime barrages after a Shahed drone hit the apartment building next door.

In her cold apartment, it seemed that normal life has shut down.

“It’s as if life in the house has stopped, that’s the feeling,” she said.

Russian barrages have hit power plants and large substations and procuring replacement equipment such as transformers can take months, according to Dennis Sakva, an energy sector analyst at Dragon Capital, a Ukrainian investment company.

AP video by Vasilisa Stepanenko.
Production by Volodymyr Yurchuk.

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