Nine hours after a cease-fire was supposed to take effect , rockets and mortars slammed into Ukrainian army Lt. Yuriy Brekharya ’s redoubt outside the besieged city of Debaltseve “like never before,” he said. Three days of relentless pounding later, he appealed to a neighboring commander for help after advancing Russia-backed separatists destroyed his unit’s final armored vehicle. “Buddy, I’ve got nothing to help you with,” came the reply. Lt. Yuriy Brekharya outside Luhanske village on Wednesday. So Lt. Brekharya, a 37-year-old financial analyst, gathered his 50 men and led them on a 14-mile overnight march across fields, streams and hills through separatist lines. As dawn broke Wednesday, he was among the first of hundreds of fleeing soldiers to arrive in trucks, tanks or […]