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Ukrainian wife battles blackouts to keep terminally ill husband alive
Olena Grygorenko manages life support through planned outages and backup power during blackouts caused by Russian strikes, with outages lasting up to nine hours daily.
- In the past weeks, Olena Grygorenko has rushed to plug her paralysed husband Anatoli Kuchynsky's yellow-and-blue life support machine into back-up batteries during blackouts in Chernihiv.
- Over the last month, Russia's strikes have damaged Ukraine's energy grid, causing nationwide rolling blackouts and forcing rationing as temperatures hit minus 20C.
- Grygorenko sets three alarms nightly—1:00, 4:00 and 6:00—and wakes to plug in the machine or recharge batteries, stocks feeding-tube nutrition and disinfectants, keeps a 100-litre water barrel, and sleeps on a click-clack sofa bed.
- Leaving batteries with insufficient recharge time creates immediate, life-threatening risks for ventilator-dependent patients as planned power outages can drag on for up to nine hours and during the February 2022 invasion, power cuts left life-support with only two hours of battery.
- Grygorenko frames daily care as endurance, hoping to outlive the conflict's worst phase while managing her husband Anatoli Kuchynsky's amyotrophic lateral sclerosis diagnosed 2015 as the Russian invasion enters its fifth year.
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Ukrainian wife battles blackouts to keep terminally ill husband alive
Olena Grygorenko has barely left her Chernigiv flat in the past weeks. Every time a blackout hits the city in northern Ukraine, she rushes to her husband's bedside to plug his life support machine into its back-up batteries.
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