KIEV, June 12 – Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy has asked the city commission to request that Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers declare an 'environmental emergency' in Lviv.

"The city commission has appealed to the government in order to declare an 'environmental emergency' in Lviv. The organizers of the so-called garbage blockade can celebrate. We have no other possibilities left to avert an environmental disaster," Sadovy wrote on his Facebook page on Monday.