Ukrainian journalist Oleksiy Sorokin posted on his Twitter a photo of the Kyiv Independent team working by candlelight, but also expressed a dose of irony on Thursday night, when, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, about 4.5 million Ukrainians were left without electricity due to Russian bombings.

“Constant power outages in Kyiv make your work sessions very intimate. I don’t know what Russia plans to achieve with these attacks, but it’s clearly not working,” Oleksiy Sorokin wrote.

Olga Rudenko, a journalist of the same publication, also shared a photo of the “intimate atmosphere” of the meeting on Twitter.

“Current or not, the session must go on,” she wrote, adding that she was “working on something very special.”

Previously, the team wrote in the Kyiv Independent Twitter account:

“In the Kyiv independent office, work does not stop when the lights go out. We, like everyone in Ukraine, have frequent power outages. It will not stop us, like everyone in Ukraine.”

President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said on Thursday evening that about 4.5 million Ukrainians, more than 10 percent of the pre-war population, were temporarily without electricity on Thursday evening due to Russian attacks.

According to Zelenskyi, Kyiv and 10 other regions were affected. He urged local authorities to conserve energy, saying now was not the time for storefronts or light panels.

European Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson said during a visit to Kyiv that the European Union is exploring ways to increase aid to Ukraine’s energy sector after Russia’s “brutal and inhumane” attacks caused massive power outages.

On Wednesday, the authorities of the Kyiv region began an emergency shutdown of the power system after a sudden increase in consumption.

The administration’s statement said that this measure is necessary to “avoid major accidents involving power equipment.”