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Gen. Aleksandr Dvornikov, picked by Russian President Vladimir Putin final month to take over the invasion of Ukraine, has disappeared, based on a brand new report.

The so-called Butcher of Syria has not been seen in two weeks, main officers to take a position that he’s not accountable for the marketing campaign, the New York Occasions reported Tuesday.

Dvornikov, who was given command of Russia’s Southern Army District after attaining infamy for his brutal campaigns in Syria, was tasked in early April with conquering Ukraine’s jap Donbas area after a large-scale assault on Ukraine floundered within the face of heavy resistance led by President Volodymyr Zelensky and backed by a lot of the West.

On the time, then-White Home press secretary Jen Psaki cited Dvornikov’s file in Syria, which incorporates an air marketing campaign that pummeled the rebel-held cities of Aleppo and Homs, killing 1000’s of civilians within the course of, when she mentioned, “We’d count on that it might be a continuation of the kind of atrocities we have already seen.”

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In response to the New York Occasions, U.S. officers mentioned shortly after Dvornikov arrived that he tried to get what the report characterised as “disjointed air and land models to coordinate their assaults.” Nonetheless, because the headline of the report stresses, U.S. officers mentioned Russian forces are repeating the identical errors that prompted Putin to show to Dvornikov within the first place, at the same time as they’ve captured some territory.

President Joe Biden introduced Tuesday that the US will present Ukraine with extra superior rocket methods and munitions that “will allow them to extra exactly strike key targets on the battlefield in Ukraine.”