The battalion commander of the 1430th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment, Sergei Serditov, died on May 9, his friend Alexander Pogodin reported on social networks. According to him, on the eve of his death, he “restored” the WWII monument in an occupied village in the Zaporizhia region, and on May 9 he died in a drone attack.
“He died on Victory Day. May 9th, 2025. During the declared truce. He died saving his fighters. Everyone was still alive, except for him. Lieutenant Colonel Serditov Sergey Valerievich. The tanker. The commander of the tank battalion received the call sign “714”. We were constantly in touch,” he wrote.
Earlier, ASTRA told about how a battalion commander with the call sign “714” shot the father of many, mobilized Alexei Serov. According to a colleague, Serov stood up for another military man, whom “714” (Serditov) shot in the leg. A scuffle ensued. As a result, the battalion commander, falling, allegedly accidentally pulled the trigger and shot the father of many children in the head.
“After that, to hide their tracks, they put the already dead husband on a butterfly [PFM-1 antipersonnel mine]. So that the autopsy would show shrapnel wounds,” said the widow of a military man who had been lied to about the cause of death.
In order to conceal this crime, the command suggested that the witnesses either go to trial or remain silent. They chose the latter.
One of the witnesses, the mobilized Stanislav Rayevsky, was sent to an abandoned colony in the “LPR” and to a brigade for the “undesirables.” He died at Bakhmut. Before that, he managed to send a video message to the ASTRA, where he told about the incident and asked to publish it after his death.
Serditov was simply transferred to another unit, “to the tankers.” He did not suffer any punishment.
ASTRA identified the names of two more commanders from the 1430th regiment who knew about the murder and hid it: Alexander Dmitrievich Filippov, 46-year-old with the call sign “Muzyka”, and another officer, Albert Vladimirovich Bezvisilny with the call sign “Ob”.
