We will show that there exists a strategy such that Arsenii always has a turn after Andrii's turn. We will split all the cells into *friendly pairs*. Two 1×1 cells make a friendly pair, if they are in the same column and there are exactly two 1×1 cells in-between. Then Arsenii colors the cell that makes a friendly pair with a cell that Andrii colored during his last turn.
We want to show that Arsenii always has such a turn. If Andrii colored some cell P, then a cell V, that makes a friendly pair with P is white. Moreover, suppose the cell V cannot be colored in black because there already is another black cell Y in some 3×3 square that is located either in the very top or the very bottom of the table. Then there also exists another similar 3×3 square either in the very top or the very bottom that contains cells P and Y, both of which are black, where Y is a friendly pair of V (Fig. 3). This completes the proof.