A shopping center in Kuznetsk caught fire on March 2. According to eyewitnesses, firefighters traveled a long distance, then fought their way through snowdrifts on the roads and dug out fire hydrants. The fire eventually spread to several buildings and engulfed an area of ​​1500 square meters. People managed to escape, but the businesses lost merchandise worth tens of millions of rubles.

In a few hours in city publics появились hundreds of angry comments, including those directed at the mayor Sergei Zlatogorsky: "The mayor deserves a reprimand, preferably with a supporting document from the prosecutor's office!" "Mayor, please comment: how did you remove all the snow so that it's now two stories high?" The entrepreneurs invited the mayor to "drop by and clarify the situation with the hydrants."

The mayor himself in his latest video report gave detailed information I told, how wonderfully Defender of the Fatherland Day went and what a "heart-wrenching and touching meeting" there was with the relatives of those killed in the SVO zone. 

Zlatogorsky frequently appears in national news for his statements about the need to support the front. Last February, he offered send all the unemployed to war, in April actively urged residents to join the people's militia, and in January of this year advised "Real men" should go to war and not wait until they're "called up for real." A month ago banned accept into municipal service those who have not served in the army.

Video: Overheard in Kuznetsk