Ukraine capital struggling with snow, scandal

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — residents of Ukraine capital suspect that the city is trying to pull a fast one over his efforts to clean up from a paralyzing blizzard on them.

A photo that appeared on the Web site of the Kiev administration Sunday after a snowfall of 20 inches (50 centimeters) shows three Snowplow clearing a road.

The trouble is — the road is actually in Moscow.

The Russian news agency ITAR-Tass said Monday that the Agency was a picture taken last November and retouched to remove the name of Russian Snowplow operator.

Kiev City Administration spokeswoman Kateryna Baranova said that the photo was a "regrettable technical error", but did not elaborate.

The photo has been removed from the site, but not before some frame grabs of it was posted on Facebook, prompting comments like "shame".

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