KYIV, Ukraine — Air-raid sirens sounded in Kyiv late Wednesday night time after a vivid gentle flashed within the sky over town.
The reason for the flash was not instantly clear, a senior official stated. Air-raid alerts have up to now sounded after missiles or drones reached the capital, relatively than prematurely of an assault, in uncommon cases the place the weapons have averted detection by radar.
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of workers, Andriy Yermak, posted on social media that air defenses have been firing in Kyiv, however then wrote that the Air Drive would supply an replace in a while the reason for the flash. A video from a automobile’s dashboard digicam posted on the Telegram social networking web site confirmed a vivid flash and a streak of burning particles within the sky.
There was hypothesis among the many public and officers {that a} NASA spacecraft that was expected to re-enter the atmosphere someday Wednesday night had brought on the flash. The craft had collected knowledge from photo voltaic flares, and most of it was anticipated to incinerate on re-entry. In response to the U.S. Protection Division, the re-entry was not anticipated for hours.
The Kyiv army administration issued a warning that “airborne targets have been detected within the sky” and stated air protection forces have been on alert. The air raid alert was in impact for about an hour in Kyiv after the flash earlier than an all clear was introduced.
Air raid alerts additionally sounded elsewhere in Ukraine on Wednesday night, in a single occasion after relatively than earlier than an explosion was heard. Within the metropolis of Dnipro, south of Kyiv, residents heard an explosion earlier than an air raid siren sounded, Ukrainska Pravda newspaper reported.
