Ukrainian
crisis
The
Russian-backed rebels of the 7th Brigade
of the Donetsk People’s Republic army have been flying a flag with the face of
Jesus Christ on it since they went to war in eastern Ukraine in April. Now it’s
flapping in the wind at a checkpoint between the mostly destroyed towns of
Vuhlehirsk and Debaltseve, and the troops are pumped up with a sense of
righteous victory. Last week, after a long siege—and ignoring a nominal
cease-fire—they forced the Ukraine government’s troops to give up Debaltseve in
what was, for Kiev, a humiliating defeat.
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