<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that millions of Ukrainians had no electricity, as fresh Russian strikes hit cities across Ukraine and crippled the country's energy infrastructure.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Currently, more than 10 million Ukrainians are without electricity," he said, adding that the regions of Odessa, Vinnytsia, Sumy and Kyiv were most affected.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We are doing everything to normalise the supply," Zelensky added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ukraine has faced strikes against its power grid following battlefield victories against Russia, the latest being Moscow's retreat from the southern city of Kherson.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">AFP journalists in several Ukraine cities said the latest strikes coincided with the first snow this season, after officials in Kyiv warned of "difficult" days ahead.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Damage to Ukraine's electricity infrastructure has been so extensive that authorities have been imposing power cuts to relieve the grid. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>