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Al Jazeera
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Mansur Mirovalev

How Kyiv copes with blackouts

Vehicles drive along a street as the city is plunged into near darkness in Kyiv [File: Sergei Supinsky/AFP]

Kyiv, Ukraine – It gets so dark so early, Lyubov Fedorchenko says, that it can feel like living in a bygone era.

“I never understood my grandma who said that they would go to sleep after sunset,” the owner of a four-bedroom house in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, told Al Jazeera.

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