This is the face of the 'butcher of Mariupol' - the Russian general overseeing a siege which has deprived the city of food, water and power for a month during merciless bombardments that have killed thousands of civilians.Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, who has served as the Director of the Russian National Centre for Defence since 2014, was identified as the commander overseeing the operation earlier this week when he personally issued a demand for Ukrainian troops defending the port to surrender - which they rejected.It means Mizintsev likely gave the order to bomb a maternity hospital in the city that killed a heavily pregnant woman and her unborn child; to bomb a theatre sheltering hundreds of children who were likely buried alive in the rubble; and to indiscriminately shell neighbourhoods in attacks that have left corpses rotting in the streets.
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