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The parliamentary faction of the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko asked Andriy Sadovyi on June 20 to immediately address the issue or step down, RFE/RL reported.

Problems linked to the city's overloaded dump site have been developing for more than a year.

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The tragedy was followed by protests against Sadovyi in Lviv.

Also on June 20, the acting director of the Lviv regional department for internal and information policies, Olha Berezyuk, started a hunger strike demanding that Sadovyi immediately start removing garbage from the dump site.