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Bosnian war survivors share endurance hacks with Ukraine

Wartime inventor and engineer Murat Heto poses for a photo after an interview with Associated Press in Gorazde, Bosnia, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. To survive and keep the lights on in their besieged town - cut off throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 interethnic war from access to electricity grid, food, medicine and the outside world - the people of Gorazde had to come up with various creative inventions. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

A technical drawing of an improvised hydropower plant is seen taped on a wall of a high school workshop in Gorazde, Bosnia, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. To survive and keep the lights on in their besieged town - cut off throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 interethnic war from access to electricity grid, food, medicine and the outside world - the people of Gorazde had to come up with various creative inventions. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

Wartime inventor, engineer and former teacher Aziz Lepenica, poses for a photo after an interview with Associated Press inside a high school workshop in Gorazde, Bosnia, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. To survive and keep the lights on in their besieged town - cut off throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 interethnic war from access to electricity grid, food, medicine and the outside world - the people of Gorazde had to come up with various creative inventions. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

Wartime inventor, engineer and former teacher Aziz Lepenica, left, instructs a student inside a high school workshop in Gorazde, Bosnia, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. To survive and keep the lights on in their besieged town - cut off throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 interethnic war from access to electricity grid, food, medicine and the outside world - the people of Gorazde had to come up with various creative inventions. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

Student works with a machine inside a high school workshop supervised by a wartime inventor, engineer and teacher Aziz Lepenica, not pictured, in Gorazde, Bosnia, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. To survive and keep the lights on in their besieged town - cut off throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 interethnic war from access to electricity grid, food, medicine and the outside world - the people of Gorazde had to come up with various creative inventions. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

People walk on Alija Izetbegovic bridge in Gorazde, Bosnia, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. To survive and keep the lights on in their besieged town - cut off throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 interethnic war from access to electricity grid, food, medicine and the outside world - the people of Gorazde had to come up with various creative inventions. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

Improvised hydropower plant which now serves as a monument in seen on the bank of Drina river in Gorazde, Bosnia, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. To survive and keep the lights on in their besieged town - cut off throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 interethnic war from access to electricity grid, food, medicine and the outside world - the people of Gorazde had to come up with various creative inventions. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

Prime minister of Bosnian-Podrinje Canton Edin Culov poses for a photo after an interview with the Associated Press in Gorazde, Bosnia, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. To survive and keep the lights on in their besieged town - cut off throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 interethnic war from access to electricity grid, food, medicine and the outside world - the people of Gorazde had to come up with various creative inventions. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

Part of an improvised hydropower plant which now serves as a monument is seen in Gorazde, Bosnia, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. To survive and keep the lights on in their besieged town - cut off throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 interethnic war from access to electricity grid, food, medicine and the outside world - the people of Gorazde had to come up with various creative inventions. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

Improvised hydropower plant which now serves as a monument in seen on the bank of Drina river in Gorazde, Bosnia, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. To survive and keep the lights on in their besieged town - cut off throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 interethnic war from access to electricity grid, food, medicine and the outside world - the people of Gorazde had to come up with various creative inventions. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

General view of Gorazde, Bosnia, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. To survive and keep the lights on in their besieged town - cut off throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 interethnic war from access to electricity grid, food, medicine and the outside world - the people of Gorazde had to come up with various creative inventions. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

A tank is seen on a former frontline above Gorazde, Bosnia, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. To survive and keep the lights on in their besieged town - cut off throughout Bosnia's 1992-95 interethnic war from access to electricity grid, food, medicine and the outside world - the people of Gorazde had to come up with various creative inventions. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

Bosnian war survivors share endurance hacks with Ukraine