Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Reid Standish: After Debaltseve, what comes next in the fight for eastern Ukraine?
Ukrainian servicemen push the military medical vehicle that the armored personnel carrier crashed into when troops were fleeing Artemovsk as they retreat from Debaltseve, Donetsk Oblast on Feb. 18.
When German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande returned from Minsk over the weekend, there was a fragile hope that the cease-fire agreement they secured might halt fighting in eastern Ukraine. That hope was smashed this week in Debaltseve, a rail junction between the rebel-held cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.
