He was the Deputy Commander of the 8th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District since July 2017.

From December 1999 to August 2000, Anashkin served on a mission in the former Yugoslavia, where he commanded a parachute battalion as part of the Peacekeeping Forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In August 2006, he was appointed to the position of chief of staff - deputy commander of the 31st separate guards airborne brigade in Ulyanovsk.

Officially, on the morning of 9 August 2008, the regiment was alerted and a few hours later, Colonel Anashkin, at the head of a battalion tactical group, flew to North Ossetia.

On August 10, a group consisting of two parachute companies on BMD, reinforced by four Nona self-propelled guns and four armored personnel carriers, went on a raid to Gori.

Advancing from Shindisi to Gori, Anashkin's group attacked and destroyed a military equipment warehouse near the village of Variani.

On August 12, after a stubborn battle, the dominant height with the television tower was captured, and the Georgian artillery battery was destroyed.

[5] In July 2017, he became the Deputy Commander of the 8th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District.