Andrey Nikolayevich Mordvichev was born on 14 January 1976 in Pavlodar in Kazakh SSR (present day Kazakhstan).

[6] He commanded the army during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, where Ukrainian sources falsely claimed he was killed[7][8][9][10] in an 18 March airstrike on an airfield in Chornobaivka.

[7][11] 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.

[6] 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 Kharkiv counteroffensive.

[19] According to an interview he gave at the end of July 2023 with the state-run Russia-1 television channel, Mordvichev views the invasion of Ukraine as a mere "stepping stone" to further conflict with Eastern Europe.