On 14 September 2018, he retired from the military service and Milan Mojsilović replaced him as the Chief of General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces.

Both files offer excerpts of authentic military documents, including orders and combat reports signed by Ljubiša Diković.

In 2013 a mass grave was discovered Rudnica - in a village in southern Serbia, from which in 2014 52 bodies of Albanian civilians from Kosovo were exhumed.

[9][10] Moreover, orders signed by General Diković for clearing up of the territory[11] show that the 37th Motorised Brigade was responsible for removing the bodies of Kosovo Albanians in their area of responsibility, which indicates that the members of this brigade, have since then took part in the cover-up of civilian bodies found in Rudnica.

[12] However, none of the claims in these dossiers were investigated by the national and international courts, nor were the members of 37th Motorised Brigade prosecuted for the alleged war crimes.