Russian missile strikes against Ukraine's power and water supplies have turned people's homes into a new frontline as Vladimir Putin tries to crush their will to resist.
Standing next to a wall decoration that says in English"Love - Happy - Joy", she said:"I urgently want to live to see the victory and to see how it's all over.
"But it is almost one year since that bandit [Putin] started a war against us. Does he have no shame?""We [Ukraine and Russia] used to be together [in the Soviet Union]... Putin came to power and what is he doing now? He wants Ukraine. We will not allow him. If I was younger, I would go and fight."Anna said the suffering unleashed by Russia's invasion was even harsher than the horrors her country endured during the Second World War, when she was a child.
"They are worse than Hitler. Hitler - God forgive me for saying this - was a stranger but they [the Russians] are like our own people," she said. "In the Second World War it was hard, my father was killed, leaving just me, my younger brother and my mother. It was tough, but not as now. My nerves are shredded."
Anna said there had been power outages at specific times in the wake of Russia's full-scale war on 24 February but in recent weeks it has become much worse and unpredictable.
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