Who is the Russian general who is being named as the “Cup of Marioupolis”?

Russian General Mikhail Mizintsev has won the nickname “The Kasap of Marioupolis” for organising the terrible attack in the Ukrainian town, which has reduced it to rubble.

Ukrainian military officials claim Mizintev orchestrated a similar attack on Syria, leaving the town of Aleppos destroyed by missiles.

The attack on Marioupol included the bombing of a theater where Ukrainians had used it as a shelter for children an attack that killed nearly 300 people.

Mizintsev, 59, serves as head of the National Centre for Defence Management, which Russia founded in 2014 to conduct future military operations.

Mizintsev was born during the peak of the Soviet Union's power in 1962, in a village about 400 miles from Moscow, writes Foxnews, broadcast Klankosova.tv.

He rose rapidly in degrees, studying at the High School of Combined Weapons Command in Kiev, before becoming commander of a recovery platoon in the Soviet Army in East Germany, the same region where KGB agent Vladimir Putin operated.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mizintsev settled in the Caucasus to command a battalion of motorized rifles.

His return to Moscow in the late 1990s led to a quick promotion, climaxing with a post in 2003 as head of the Chief of Staff's Operations Directorate, a role that charged him with military planning duties.

He later took over the National Centre for Defence Management, at which point he reportedly co-ordinated Russia's involvement in Syrian civil war between 2015 and 2016.

Mizintsev has served as the face of the Russian press in statements about the siege of Marioupolis.

In the video conference, he called Ukrainian “banites” and “neazi” and accused them of involvement in “massive terror”.

He is accused of ordering attacks on numerous civilian infrastructure targets, including schools, hospitals and theatres that sheltered more than 1,000 civilians.

Oleksandra Matwickuk, head of the Ukraine Centre for Civil Freedoms, called on Mizintsev to face war crimes charges at The Hague.