After three days without power in sub-zero temperatures, tech entrepreneur Anastasiya Stepula decided to leave her apartment in central Kyiv in search of heat.
Stepula, 37, had been wearing a ski suit to try and keep warm since a Russian attack on the capital¡¯s energy infrastructure took out the power to her block among hundreds of others. But with nighttime temperatures plunging to minus 19 degrees Celsius, she headed out to look for somewhere warmer, recharge her devices, and to continue working.
Not far from her house, she saw windows glowing in an office building and was surprised to find that it was a hub for software developers like her equipped with its own electricity supply, a powerful generator, tea, coffee, places to sleep, and even house slippers.
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