The bright flash seen by residents of the city of Kiev late on Wednesday evening, April 19, was probably the result of the fall of a decommissioned satellite, the head of the Kyiv city military administration, Sergei Popko, said on Telegram.

" According to preliminary information, this phenomenon was the result of a NASA space satellite falling to Earth,"

Popko explained that an air alert was announced in the capital of Ukraine in order to avoid casualties from possible debris falling to the ground.. At the same time, our air defense was not working at that moment..

UPD: Yury Ignat, spokesman for the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, did not confirm in a comment to Suspiliny the information that a satellite fell in the Kyiv region.