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People let their devices charge in a branch of a private post company, powered from a generator during blackout in Kharkiv on March 22, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city with a pre-war population of nearly one and a half million, street lighting is switched off, no lights appear in the windows of buildings, and the pavement is only occasionally illuminated by car headlights following massive night-time strikes on March 22, 2024. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP) (KEYSTONE/AFP/GENYA SAVILOV)