The mayor of Morshansk is resigning. He previously stated that one of the city's residents died in the war "for sports grounds and a bridge."

About leaving Alexey Bannikov, who headed Morshansk from 2015 year, сообщают Sources for the publication "Ploshchad" (Square) do not rule out the possibility that the new mayor will be a hero of the "SVO" (SVO), a lieutenant colonel of the Marine Corps. Konstantin Kuteinikov — he is currently undergoing training under the presidential program “Time of the First.”

Alexey Bannikov became famous throughout the country in July of this year when he presented the Order of Courage to the sister of a resident who died in the war and spoke the following words of consolation: "He died so that we could have sunny days, so that our children could relax in summer camps, so that our city could be improved, so that we could have sports grounds, so that our bridge could finally be repaired."

After that the governor Tambov region Maxim Egorov said that he was ashamed of the mayor's words.

Bannikov himself later saidthat he was set up by the “Bandera trolls” who distributed the video.

The deceased's sister, by the way, claimedthat she has no complaints against the mayor.