This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 9 KYIV, Ukraine - Two days after a Russian missile killed her close friend on New Year's Eve, Daria Khizhchuk was back at her job waiting tables at an upscale Italian restaurant in the Ukrainian capital. Her shift passed in a daze; she filled chatty customers' orders on autopilot while consumed with grief. "It was the worst," Khizhchuk said. "Sadly it is like that. There are two worlds." "That's how it has to be," she added. "This is our last winter like this. Next year we will be free." As Kyiv settles into its first winter since Russia invaded last February, residents are coping with the harsh realities of the grinding war: a constant threat of airstrikes, regular power outages, fears of nuclear attack. They are also carrying on. Dance studios and nail salons are open - having learned to operate with battery-powered lights even when Russian … [Read more...] about Kyiv withstands bombs and blackouts as Russia fails to cripple capital