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Emma Graham-Harrison in Kyiv

Tight spot: the Ukrainians fitting lifts with blackout kits

An employee of an elevator maintenance company opens the lift of a residential building in Kyiv, where. people risk getting stuck due to power cuts.
An employee of an elevator maintenance company opens the lift of a residential building in Kyiv, where people risk getting stuck due to power cuts. Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images

Markus Peuser was in the lift up to his 10th-floor apartment when one of Russia’s early drone barrages against Kyiv hit a power station, and the small metal box shuddered to a halt.

It was at least a good time to get trapped, he said wryly. “I was coming from the supermarket, so I had enough food with me and a bottle of wine,” he said. By the time someone came to rescue him, two hours later, he’d got through “a lot of chocolates”.

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