The Security Service of Ukraine has launched an investigation into the “garbage blockade” of Lviv, which began with the arson of the city garbage dump in May 2016 and lasted more than a year, said Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi.
“I’m surprised, but the SBU started working. If this case is investigated, it will be a great respect for the city’s public and the law. I think it will be necessary to prepare a lot of cells in Ukrainian prisons, because it was an attempt to create an environmental catastrophe in the city,” noted Sadovyi in the air of the Right to Power (Pravo na Vladu) talk show, the press service of the Samopomich party said on July 19.
Sadovy recalled that, according to the party, the “garbage blockade” of Lviv happened due to the fact that the administration of the fifth president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko wanted to get the parliamentary faction Samopomich into manual control. He made public the corresponding agreement, which was offered to Sadovyi in the administration, in February of this year.
“This process involved a lot of people who had high positions, ranging from Petro Oleksiyovych [Poroshenko] to the heads of regional administrations, employees of the SBU, the prosecutor’s office, the police. Many officials were inactive and just watched the city was being created problems. These people will have to give serious answers,” said the mayor of Lviv.
The party recalled that during a working visit to Lviv on July 6, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky ordered the SBU to investigate Lviv’s garbage blockade.
