Kicking up a stink: Ukraine's Lviv blighted by trash crisis Ukraine's western city Lviv is famous for its graceful domes and cobblestone streets but its back alleys have been hit by a crisis: growing mountains of garbage. Waste has not been removed from some neighbourhoods in the city of 700,000 since May, with the stench scaring tourists and a rat infestation threatening public health. But the trash piles have only increased due to an apparent political impasse between the Ukrainian government and the authorities of the post-Soviet country's arguably most European-looking city. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES