On Monday evening, police in Russia’s Vologda region arrested a man for [setting fire](https://vologda-poisk.ru/news/kriminal/vologzhanin-ne-smog-kupit-alkogol-i-popytalsya-szhech-magazin#modal-text-selector) to a local grocery store after vendors refused to sell him alcohol in compliance with a new regional ordinance that limits liquor sales to a two-hour window between noon and 2 p.m.
According to eyewitnesses, an already-intoxicated man became belligerent when the clerks would not sell him alcohol. The man (a Ukraine War veteran, according to [one report](https://vk.com/wall-190399943_4646)) then produced a Molotov cocktail and a grenade and began threatening the store employees. By the time the police arrived, the store was already on fire.
At Governor Georgy Filimonov’s initiative, the Vologda region imposed strict limits on alcohol sales, effective March 1.