MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three weeks before Ukraine's army forced rebel fighters out of the strategic eastern city of Slaviansk, their commander made a desperate plea for military help from Russia.
"A week will pass, two, three, maybe a month, and the rebellion's best fighters will be bled dry and, sooner or later, crushed and destroyed," Igor Girkin, who is better known as Strelkov, said in a comments widely viewed online.
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