After graduating from the school, he was sent to serve in the 336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade of the Baltic Fleet at Baltiysk.

Additionally, using the People's Republics pre-existing commissariat systems, implemented general mobilization of their populations, conscripting 79,800 men from the region, as well as requisitioning 2,000 vehicles.

[8] Burdinsky is also directly in charge of the Storm-Z penal military units consisting of volunteers drawn from Russian prisons on the promise of a reduced sentence.

He was heavily criticized for his failure to directly control all the units during the Wagner Group rebellion, where several of the units proclaimed their loyalty to the Wagner group in their effort to topple the Russian military structure.

[9] Due to his role in the war in Ukraine, Burdinsky was sanctioned by the European Union, and Switzerland.