The Chornobyl café as an Invincibility Point during the blackouts.

In winter, when Kyiv lived by power outage schedules, our Chornobyl café on Andriivskyi Descent worked as a small Invincibility Point. Yaroslav Yemelianenko was one of the first to draw 220 volts from car batteries through an inverter, so the lights in the café did not go out and the fridges and equipment kept running. Later a generator was added.

Everyone came: residents of nearby buildings, vendors from Andriivskyi Descent, friends, random passersby. They charged phones and power banks to stay in touch, drank coffee and, when the frosts set in, warmed up with mulled wine as well.

"Is it a business? De jure, yes. In fact, no, because everything we earn goes to the team's salaries," Yaroslav wrote at the time.

Today the café, like the shop, works in the DIM N10 restaurant at 10 Spaska Street.