Late on Wednesday evening, April 19, a bright flash was visible in the sky over Kiev, with shades of orange and green, and a few minutes later an air raid began.
Joking and not quite messages about an unknown flying object over the capital began to spread on social networks, along with assumptions about the successful operation of the Ukrainian air defense against an enemy target, in particular with the help of the Patriot system received the day before..
Andriy Yermak, head of the presidential office, wrote: " This is our air defense" But he quickly deleted the messages, asking the Ukrainians to wait for official information from the Air Force, which should give more details..
As it turned out, on April 19, a NASA satellite, decommissioned, was also supposed to fall to Earth.. It was the version about the fall of the spacecraft that the Kiev city military administration previously called true, but this was not confirmed in the Air Force - they have one more assumption.
All this uncertainty around what happened created a bunch of memes about UFOs and air defense, which already in the first minutes began to appear on social networks..
*Aliens want to establish contact with earthlings*Ukrainians knock them down from Petriot pic. twitter. com/J2LIeIbX8C.
Sergey (@iserozhko) April 19, 2023.
nucleus/meteorite/UFO/satellite: lit. Ukrainians: pic. twitter. com/jl9x556SFt.
— hokage penguin (@hokage_penguin) April 19, 2023.
UFO: fallsUkrainians through 0. 00001 seconds:pic. twitter. com/HeHriYbqKR.
-a? astasia (@ana_alekseienko) April 19, 2023.
what pic. twitter. com/goGLltQn2T.
— pani Kshisya (@kotovolodarka) April 19, 2023.
Tim for an hour near Kiev pic. twitter. com/xB2h6NOAgW.
— LA (@a_linev) April 19, 2023.
- yes, Ukrainian friends, here's a petriot for you, use it, you hear, and satellites can be shot down with it? - no, what? - pic. twitter. com/cp5qzjdvsa.
— God of Atheists (@iamgodofatheist) April 19, 2023.
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