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Militia commander Yuri Bereza and his 150 Ukrainian irregulars were closing in on pro-Moscow separatists in their last stronghold in this eastern city when Russian troops and armor thundered in out of nowhere to cut them off in the suburb of Ilovaisk.
No satellite or drone surveillance detected the sudden movement of the Russian columns. No word of the impending attack had been radioed from the border guard base the invaders had to have passed. Neither did any of the allied soldiers who were supposed to be bringing up the rear inform Bereza's fighters that they had been cut off. In fact, the 700-strong contingent of government recruits had deserted en masse.
The unit's calls to Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, to say it was surrounded brought promises of a reinforcements, food and ammunition, none of which came to the rescue of the men, who survived on grass and rainwater as they braved five days of incessant sniper fire, "like game at a hunting range," Bereza said bitterly of the battle two months ago.
It was at Ilovaisk, where 107 irregulars died and at least 700 recruits and volunteers were taken captive, that the Ukrainian military's post-independence disintegration was most painfully on display.
A standing army of 1 million inherited by Ukraine after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union has dwindled to barely 100,000. Analysts say even that figure is inflated. At the time the Russia-backed separatists began grabbing territory in March, then-Defense Minister Ihor Tenyukh told the parliament that Ukraine had no more than 6,000 combat-ready troops to repel the aggression.
The Ukraine contingent of the once-fearsome Soviet Red Army rotted from the top after independence, when senior posts became cushy rewards for political supporters of the ruling party. Since the overthrow of Kremlin-allied President Viktor Yanukovich in February, the military leadership has been a revolving door. The fourth defense minister in eight months, Stepan Poltorak, was appointed by President Petro Poroshenko this week and confirmed Tuesday.
Defense funding has declined to a fraction of its Soviet-era support. Ukraine last year allocated $1.9 billion for the armed forces, Defense Ministry figures show, only 10% of it earmarked for modernizing training and weapons. Russia, by contrast, spent $4.47 billion and has a standing force and conscription-age population three times larger than Ukraine's, the CIA World Factbook estimates.
Ukraine's last significant military exercises took place nine years ago, said Ihor Smeshko, former security services chief and now head of Poroshenko's intelligence committee.
Not a single new combat aircraft has been commissioned since independence, and the country's air power has shrunk to about three dozen fighter jets and a diminishing fleet of antiquated helicopters from the 1,500 acquired with the Soviet breakup, said Yuri Biryukov, a presidential aide in charge of fund-raising for militias.
But perhaps the most serious blunder, analysts say, was the failure of successive Ukrainian leaders to see their Russian neighbors as a potential threat.
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However, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said a subsequent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of France and German had made some headway in defusing a crisis that has revived memories of Cold War enmity.
"We have the first limited progress on the gas issue. We have agreed on the main parameters of the contract," he said, adding that all sides remain committed to a ceasefire deal struck last month to halt a pro-Russia revolt.
The Kremlin said Putin and Poroshenko would meet one-on-one later on Friday.
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The West has clamped sanctions on Russia in response to its annexation of Crimea in March and its support for separatists battling government troops in the east of Ukraine.
Kiev and its Western backers accuse Moscow of aiding the separatist revolt by providing troops and arms. Russia denies the charges but says it has a right to defend the interests of the region's Russian-speaking majority.
EU officials said the gas talks would continue in Brussels next week, with Poroshenko telling reporters that the financing still needed to be resolved.
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Moscow cut off gas supplies to Ukraine in June over unpaid debts and a pricing disagreement. This has sparked fears that the Russian gas that transits Ukraine en route to Europe could also be disrupted this winter.
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MOSCOW A high-stakes meeting between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia ended Friday with little progress in resolving the conflict in eastern Ukraine, highlighting the increasingly intractable struggle there between government forces and Russian-backed rebels.
On a day when heavy fighting continued in the rebel-held city of Donetsk, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko left meetings in Milan saying that they had made little headway in resolving Ukraines abundant problems.
A September cease-fire deal has been repeatedly violated. The specter of a natural gas shortage this winter looms over Ukraine. And Russia and the West remain embroiled in the worst tensions since the Cold War, with European leaders Friday offering gloomy assessments of the lack of progress in talks with Putin.
Putin, meanwhile, said that Russia is not involved in the conflict but that his government is ready to mediate to ensure that both rebels and Ukrainian forces pull back from current positions and live up to the cease-fire deal reached in September in Minsk, Belarus. Ukraine and its Western allies have said that Russia has fueled the seven-month conflict by sending troops and weaponry across the border, a charge the Kremlin denies.
The parties firmly remain in support of the Minsk memorandum and are focusing their efforts on fulfilling all its provisions, Poroshenko told journalists Friday.
Fridays summit was only the third meeting between Putin and Poroshenko since the Ukrainian presidents election in May. The last meeting, in August in Belarus, took place shortly before columns of troops and tanks rolled into Ukraine from Russia, inflicting massive damage on Ukraines army and forcing Poroshenko to sue for peace.
In exchange for a cease-fire deal, the Ukrainian leader conceded broad rights of self-governance to areas of eastern Ukraine that are under rebel control. Similar pro-Russian separatist enclaves in Moldova and Georgia have allowed Russia to exert pressure on the governments of those former Soviet republics.
Putin said the first priority should be to solidify a line of separation between Ukrainian and rebel-held territory to which both sides agreed in September. Those borders would essentially demarcate a new pro-Russian enclave inside Ukraine. Witnesses in recent days have said that Ukrainian border guards have started manning checkpoints in areas leading into rebel-held territory.
The line of separation should be finished, and this is exactly what would help finally end the shelling and the deaths of peaceful, innocent people, Putin told reporters in Milan after his meetings with Poroshenko. In his remarks, Putin repeatedly called the rebel-held territory Novorossiya, or New Russia, the rebels term for what they hope will be their new state. Putins use of the term was just the latest signal that Russia has little interest in helping Ukraine regain control of territory that until April formed the core of its industrial heartland.
Despite the cease-fire agreement, intense fighting has continued for control of Donetsks airport, which is the final outpost of Ukraines military near the rebel stronghold city. A Ukrainian military spokesman, Col. Andriy Lysenko, said Friday that three soldiers were killed in the previous 24hours. Donetsk city administrators said explosions, shelling and shooting could be heard throughout the city center.
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