Russian strikes cause new outages in 12 Ukrainian regions, official says

​Russian ​strikes on ‌Ukraine's energy infrastructure ​overnight caused ‌power outages in 12 Ukrainian regions, Deputy Energy ‌Minister Artem Nekrasov said ‌on Friday. The affected regions are Dnipropetrovsk, ⁠Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, ​Zhytomyr, ⁠Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Rivne, ⁠Sumy, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi and ​Chernihiv.

"Energy workers are working ⁠at an intensified ⁠pace, ​but new attacks and constant air ⁠raid alerts are complicating ⁠and delaying ⁠repairs," Nekrasov said.