SIMFEROPOL, Dec. 29 - There may be outages in Crimea during the night of December 31 to January 1 but they will be brief, the regional governor warned on Saturday.

"Even if there are any power cuts, they'll be balanced out: for a short time in each district. There will no more be situations such as what happened yesterday when people had no electricity for between eight and 10 hours," Sergei Aksyonov told reporters in Simferopol.