NOVOLUHANSKE – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko thought he could rely for his re-election in part on the votes of soldiers who have spent years fighting Russian-backed separatists. But a visit to the frontline found low morale and little enthusiasm for him.
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This handout picture taken and released by the Ukraine presidential press-service on March 14, 2019 shows Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko visiting the position of the volunteers regiment of "Azov" on the front line with the Russia-back separatists in the Donetsk region.