NASA says flash over Kyiv was not its

Amysterious flash that lit up the skies over the Ukrainian capital Kyiv generated much speculation.

Officials in Kyiv said they suspected it was a NASA satellite falling to Earth, but the US space agency told the BBC it was still in orbit.

The Ukrainian air force suggested the flash might have been a meteorite.

Whatever it was, the air force seemed confident it had not been caused by a Russian air attack – an event all too familiar since the invasion last year.

The bright glow was observed in the sky over the capital around 22:00 (19:00 GMT).

An air raid alert was activated, but “air defence was not in operation”, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, Serhiy Popko, said on Telegram.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is due to address Mexico’s Congress today by

Satellite

video, according to two people familiar with the matter, as he seeks support in his country’s ongoing war with Russia.

Mexico’s Government has said it wants to remain neutral in the conflict, and some supporters of Ukraine have criticised the country’s leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for taking issue with European arms shipments to Kyiv.

Still, Mexico has voted alongside the United States and other Western pow- ers on a number of major United Nations resolutions.

The speech was due to take place around midday, the sources said.

Zelenskiy’s address to the lower house of Congress came at the invitation of a congressional friendship group between Mexico and Ukraine, according to the sources. There are other similar groups in the Mexican Congress, including one for Russia.

(Excerpt from BBC and Reuters)