Yenakiyeve

Steel works in rebel-controlled Yenakiyeve accounted for a quarter of the company’s steel output in the first quarter.

Steel works in rebel-controlled Yenakiyeve accounted for a quarter of the company's steel output in the first quarter.

"One of them drove in front of the convoy and the second one behind," Romanenko said at a hospital in Yenakiyeve, where he was recovering from shrapnel wounds to his leg.

Visits by The Associated Press to training grounds like those near Yenakiyeve and interviews with dozens of rebels reveal that Russian armed forces spearheaded some of the major separatist offensives, then withdrew quickly before they could be widely noticed.

At the grounds outside Yenakiyeve, where the man referred to as the “general” observed maneuvers, the lack of formal military training among the rebels was obvious.