The Ukrainian Air Force did not work over Kiev during the outbreak over the city and nearby regions, Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat said on the air of the telethon on the morning of April 20.

According to him, the air force at that moment worked only in the south of Ukraine, where Shahed-type drones were recorded..

“What it was, most likely, if not in a scientific language, because as explained on the NASA website it was a high-acoustic energy event, then this is actually a meteor that passed into the atmosphere. or something else, some other anomaly. There are experts for this.. The Air Force is doing slightly different things.. We shoot down air targets attacking Ukraine. No enemy attacks were recorded in the Kyiv region this time,” he said..

According to him, the air raid signal in Kyiv and the region was already turned on as a reaction to the situation..

“There is a war going on in the country, something broke out in the sky, it was necessary to somehow react. It was unexpected for everyone. The air command has issued an air alert in order to at least clarify the situation,” the air force spokesman added..

He recalled that the Russians are using both S-400 systems and ballistic missiles against Ukraine, which are very difficult to detect in time..

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Recall that at about 22:00 on April 19, a bright flash was observed in the sky over Kiev and there was no sound of an explosion, as happens with missile strikes and air defense. After that, an air raid alarm went off..

The head of the KMVA, Sergei Popko, suggested that the outbreak was probably the result of the fall of a decommissioned satellite. The assumption was made because earlier there was information that on April 19, the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager satellite, which until 2018 was studying emissions and flares on the Sun, should fall to Earth.

Subsequently, NASA spokesman Rob Margettu said that the flash, which was seen even in Belarus, was not caused by the fall of a NASA satellite, since it was still in orbit..