I don't believe it was a poor AI translation from Russian, though. AI is already so good that it could easily have corrected the any stylistic peculiarities.

100%. As a native speaker of the language and an AI user, I can say that AI does an excellent job with translation and even conveying slang!

It’s really sad about the power outages — I hate the cold myself, so I can imagine how insanely hard and painful that must have been…
!ALIVE