Andrey Nikolayevich Mordvichev (russian: Андрей Николаевич Мордвичев; born 14 January 1976
) is a Russian
lieutenant general who is the overall commander of the
Central Military District
Mordvichev commanded the
4th Separate Guards Tank Brigade from 2011 and the
28th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade
The 28th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade (Military Unit Number 61423) was a brigade of the Russian Ground Forces. The brigade was formed in 2009 from the 34th Motor Rifle Division. The brigade, originally based in Yekaterinburg, moved to Klintsy in 2 ...
in 2014. Now the commander of the Central Military district.
2022 Invasion of Ukraine
He commanded the army during the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...
, where Ukrainian sources (falsely) claimed he was killed
in an 18 March
airstrike on an airfield in Chornobaivka.
This would have made him
Russia's sixth general to be killed in the invasion and the most highly ranked casualty of the war up to that point.
However, Mordvichev's claimed death was not confirmed by Russian sources, and on 28 March, Russian television broadcast images that showed
Ramzan Kadyrov meeting Mordvichev in
Mariupol.
Since 17 February 2023, he has commanded Russia's
Central Military District, having replaced the promoted Colonel-General
Aleksandr Lapin due to the previous territorial losses during the
2022 Ukranian Kharkiv counteroffensive.
See also
References
Russian lieutenant generals
Recipients of the Order of Military Merit (Russia)
Possibly living people
1974 births
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