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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tom Batchelor

Who is the Butcher of Mariupol? Sanctioned Russian colonel accused of Ukraine hospital bombing

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A Russian general dubbed the “Butcher of Mariupol” owing to his alleged brutal military tactics in Ukraine has been sanctioned by the UK.

Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev stands accused of ordering the destruction of a maternity hospital and theatre where more than a thousand civilians were sheltering in the Ukrainian southern port city Mariupol.

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