9 yrs ago , Donetsk Separatist Leader Calls Out Ukrainian President After Bloodbath Battle

~~ he was assassinated on Aug 31st 2018.
~~ Exactly nine years ago, Alexander Zakharchenko invited Poroshenko to Donetsk to pick up the flag left behind at the airport by the Ukrainian battalions:

- “We removed this flag from Donetsk airport. If they come to us with the same thing, the fate of those boys is sad: almost all of them will die.”

~~ CNN clip at the start of hostilities over 8 yrs ago.
https://rumble.com/v26v6c2-forgotten-cnn-clip-from-the-beginning-of-the-war-8-years-ago-.html