On 15 February, a meteorite shower has rained down on Russia’s Ural region. According to the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia, Itar-Tass, up to 500 people were injured -82 of them are children and two are in intensive care-, while according to RT, unconfirmed reports say the meteorite was intercepted by an air defence unit at the Urzhumka settlement near Chelyabinsk.