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How the mayor turned a Cherkasy City Council session into a cynical show for journalists🤦♀️
When the mayor of Cherkasy, who systematically ignores City Council meetings, suddenly shows up at a session, it’s not a random event. We came to Cherkasy, just that week when a session was scheduled. And, of course, we went there. We saw Anatoliy Bondarenko personally presenting the “Defender of Ukraine – Hero of Cherkasy” award to three mothers of killed soldiers.
Understand correctly: honoring the families of fallen soldiers is absolutely correct and necessary. However, something like this during a session has never happened.
The award “Defender of Ukraine – Hero of Cherkasy” was established in November ’22. Back then they were handed to families of the fallen at the House of Culture, in June ’25 – at the city hall building, but not during a session; in September – at the philharmonic, and in January the presentation happened entirely without the mayor in the theater building.
Now, upon learning that journalists were arriving, the mayor appeared at the session solely to hand out the awards and immediately disappeared, not waiting for a discussion of the agenda.
Therefore we asked the mayor in person what else he is doing for the families of the fallen heroes. More — in the new travel blog on the Bihus.Info channel.
