Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Josh Cohen: Poroshenko’s incompetence lost Debaltseve
Residents walk past a crater left by shelling near Lenin square in Debaltseve on March 2, 2015.
As long lines of shell-shocked Ukrainian troops straggled out of Debaltseve last month after a stinging defeat to the Russian-backed separatists there, the focus was on how the separatists had used the support of Russian-supplied weaponry and support troops to inflict a stinging defeat on Kyiv's forces in the key railroad junction town.
