A resident of Kuzbass, who asked Canada for asylum due to poor ecology, suffered from an underground fire
A resident of Kiselevsk, Kemerovo region, Vitaly Shestakov received a burn to his leg when he showed journalists the site of an underground fire near houses, Kiselevsk News reports . Shestakov, together with other residents of the city, previously appealed to the Prime Minister of Canada with a request to grant them refugee status due to the poor ecology in the region. According to the publication, Shestakov was questioned by police officers about the incident.