He also commanded the Operational Group of the Russian Armed Forces in Syria from 2022 to 2023 and has been the Chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization since 2023.

Serdyukov fought in the First Chechen War and served as a deputy brigade commander in Kosovo, participating in the Incident at Pristina airport.

According to official Russian sources, Serdyukov was born on 4 March 1962 in Uglegorsky, Tatsinsky District, Rostov Oblast.

[3] In Kosovo, he participated in the Incident at Pristina airport, a standoff between the Russian troops and NATO peacekeeping forces.

[4] On 10 March 2002, Serdyukov became acting commander of the 138th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade in the Leningrad Military District.

[6] On 4 October 2016, Serdyukov was appointed commander of the Russian Airborne Troops, replacing Colonel General Vladimir Shamanov.

[3] On 15 September 2017, Serdyukov was seriously injured during an accident on the R21 highway in Murmansk Oblast while supervising Airborne exercises: a Chevrolet Lanos smashed into his minivan, rolling it over.

Airborne Troops deputy commander Major General Vladimir Kochetkov also suffered fractures, while the driver of the passenger car was killed.

[9] From 10 April 2019 to late September 2019, he was the Commander of the troops for the Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War to Syria.

[13] On 19 June 2022, it was reported by Odesa military-civilian spokesperson Serhiy Bratchuk[14][15] that Vladimir Putin had sacked Serdyukov for his doomed bid to take Hostomel airfield in which few of the invading soldiers survived.