"Sometimes I have to work in the pantry room where I have a small, improvised shelter. When I hear explosions nearby, I go there. Two walls will protect you from splinters. I have a blanket on the floor and fairy lights on batteries so there is lighting. It looks romantic, but I wish I'd never have to experience that."
Ukrainian Anastasia Kvitka does her best to carry on with her job as a marketing executive and copywriter in Dnipro, but this month alone Russian missiles killed at least 46 people and wounded dozens more in the war-ravaged city.
While Russia bombards the country from the air, and targets power infrastructure in particular, she and her colleagues are learning how to keep going in the most extraordinary of conditions.
It's an absurd contrast: while the professionals work peacefully at their desks on hi-tech website design, apps and analytics, outside, the barbaric threats of missile and rocket strikes constantly hang over them.
Systematic Russian attacks on Ukraine's power grid that began in October have damaged an estimated 40 per cent of the electrical network and led to rolling blackouts that have left millions of people without a reliable supply of electricity – sometimes for hours or days at a time.
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