Kyiv, Ukraine  —  Liudmyla Shramko left Kyiv in 2024 with her young twin daughters to avoid shelling and blackouts. But a year later, 16-hour power outages caught up with her in western Ukraine. The 40-year-old recalls a two-day unscheduled power outage in her apartment in the capital in summer 2024 when it was 40 degrees … The post ‘No reason to stop living’: Ukrainians find ways to cope with power cuts as Russia pounds the energy system appeared first on Egypt Independent .