أناتولي سيدوروف

في عام 1995، شارك سيدوروف في الحرب الشيشانية الأولى في جمهورية الشيشان . وفي عام 2000، تخرج من الأكاديمية العسكرية التابعة لهيئة الأركان العامة للقوات المسلحة الروسية ، وخدم في المنطقة العسكرية للشرق الأقصى قائداً لفرقة بنادق آلية، وشغل منصب نائب القائد ورئيس أركان الجيش. وفي 12 يونيو/حزيران 2006، عُيّن قائداً للجيش الخامس المشترك .

Sidorov received the rank of lieutenant general in 2007, with his official appointment to the rank conferred on 26 July 2007 in an event in the Saint George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.^[2] In 2008, he was demoted to deputy commander of the district troops. On 22 October 2009, he was the Chief of Staff - 1st Deputy Commander of the Far Eastern Military District. A year later, in connection with the military-administrative reform in the Armed Forces and the abolition of the Far Eastern Military District, Sidorov took up a similar position in the Eastern Military District, which he held until 2012.^[3]

At the end of October 2012, Sidorov was appointed chief of staff - 1st deputy commander of the Western Military District, replacing Admiral Nikolai Maksimov in this post.^[4] On 9 November 2012, Sidorov was appointed interim commander of the Western Military District, in connection with the appointment of the previous commander, Colonel-General Arkady Bakhin, to the post of 1st Deputy Minister of Defence of Russia.^[5]

On 24 December 2012, by decree of the President of Russia, Sidorov was appointed commander of the Western Military District.^[6] On 27 December, in the House of Officers of the Western Military District in Saint Petersburg, Sidorov, as the new commander, was presented with the standard of the commander of the troops of the district. He received it from the hands of his predecessor, Bakhin.^[5] On 20 February 2013, Sidorov was promoted to Colonel General.^[7]

Bellingcat experts had attributed that Sidorov was one of a number of Russians who were responsible for transporting the Buk missile system to the territory of Donbas and for launching the missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on 17 July 2014.^[8][9]

He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2014 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.^[10]

في سبتمبر/أيلول 2015، أُدرج اسم سيدوروف على قائمة العقوبات الأوكرانية . ^{[ 11 ]} وفي الشهر نفسه، اقترح رؤساء دول منظمة معاهدة الأمن الجماعي بالإجماع ترشيح سيدوروف لمنصب رئيس هيئة الأركان المشتركة للمنظمة. وبموجب مرسوم صادر عن رئيس روسيا في 10 نوفمبر/تشرين الثاني 2015، عُيّن رئيسًا لهيئة الأركان المشتركة لمنظمة معاهدة الأمن الجماعي، وباشر مهامه في 23 نوفمبر/تشرين الثاني 2015. ^{[ 12 ] [ 13 ]}