Council of Churches issues an appeal to the leadership of the country over Lviv garbage
"As we know, at the end of May last year, a fire broke out in the Gribovička dump near Lviv, which took precious lives of people. This tragic situation in deep pain and grief reverberated in the hearts of all believing people and indifferent citizens of Ukraine and caused condemnation over the long-term negligence of the responsible persons and structures that could not prevent the disaster and its consequences.
Since then, a year has passed, but even today this misfortune is a source of ecological disaster that harms the health and lives of hundreds of thousands of people, and soon the sanitary and epidemiological state in the city can reach the critical edge of an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe, since, to our great regret, our fellow believers inform us about the fait accompli of an artificial garbage blockade of the city of Lviv.
Quite unacceptable and shameful are such cynical political speculations on environmental tragedies, because life and health of people, like everything around them, is the gift of the Creator, and in no way can be a means of political struggle.
This situation has shown us manifestations of the systemic sickness of our public-state organism that threaten the very existence of our State: irresponsible politicking, aimed at the complete destruction of political opponents, without any inspection of humanity and morality; absolute absence of national solidarity, both within individual regions and the entire state; lack of genuine subsidiarity, which is one of the main values and an integral element of democracy," the Appeal says.
Problems with the removal of garbage from Lviv began last June after a fire at the Gribovička dump, which had to be closed. Mayor of the city Andriy Sadovyi accuses the state of blocking all polygons for Lviv garbage, and the chairman of the Samopomich faction Oleg Bereziuk went on hunger strike in the Parliament.
Chairman of the Lviv Regional State Administration Oleg Siniutka said that the administration takes over the functions of removing garbage from Lviv.
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