The meteor shower, which residents of Kiev and the Kiev region can observe, will peak on the night of April 23. It has been reported DEA News With reference to the Moscow Planetarium.
“From April 14 to April 25, the Lyrid meteor shower is activated, whose peak will fall on April 22-23, 2023,” the message says.
The planetarium stated that meteorites are expected up to 18 per hour during the heaviest hours of the downpour.
On the evening of April 19, locals saw a bright glow in the sky over Kiev. Head of the Kyiv Military Administration Sergei Popko declarationthat a crashed American satellite flew over Kiev. However, NASA denied this information.
Russian military expert Alexei Leonkov told RIA Novosti that the Lyrid meteor was most likely seen over Kiev.
Later, the Ukrainian Space Agency also explained that the glow in the sky over Kiev was most likely caused by a meteor fall.