Due to the military invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, hostilities continue, and enemy missile strikes damage critical infrastructure. Ukrainians are forced to adapt to blackouts. One of the common problems with long power outages is the spoilage of food in the refrigerator.. The Ministry of Reintegration told how you can save food in the absence of light.

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Five tips for keeping food in the fridge.

To keep food longer when the light is turned off, you must:.

Pre-purchase dry ice containers or freeze water in regular plastic beverage bottles. Store them in the freezer of the refrigerator in case of a power outage..

Arrange previously prepared ice containers on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator and the top shelf of the freezer. So you extend the time that food stays in the turned off refrigerator for more than four hours.. By using dry ice, the storage time can be extended up to two days..

If there is a power failure for four hours or more, it is better to group food together in the freezer. Filled, it keeps the cold up to 48 hours, half empty - only 24 hours..

In any case, if there is no light, you should open the refrigerator door as little as possible.. This way you can prevent the ingress of warm air, because the optimum temperature in it should not be higher than + 4 ° C, and in the freezer - not exceed -4 degrees.

Foods that do not exceed +4°C or have ice crystals on them can be re-frozen or cooked.

Recall that on the morning of December 19, the Russians launched 23 Shahed-136 Iranian drones in Kyiv and the region, the defenders of the Ukrainian sky shot down 18 of them. The wreckage and surviving drones damaged infrastructure, in particular, critical ones, which led to a difficult energy situation..