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The Wagner Society gathered on Tuesday those wishing to “say goodbye” to Prigozhin at a cemetery in St. Petersburg.
The farewell ceremony for the Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died in a plane crash, was held behind closed doors, his company said on Tuesday, August 29, but urged those who wish to join it.say goodbyeat the cemetery in St. Petersburg.
“Farewell to Evgeny Viktorovich took place in private. Those wishing to say goodbye can go to the Porokhovskoye cemetery.“, — said his company Concord in Telegram. It was not immediately clear whether the Wagner leader had ever been buried.
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Putin did not attend the funeral
This is the first message from Concorde since Wagner’s failed mutiny against the Russian General Staff at the end of June, which turned Yevgeny Prigozhin into an enemy of the authorities. Earlier Tuesday, the Kremlin announced that President Vladimir Putin did not plan to attend the funeral of Mr. Prigozhin, whom he called “traitorduring his rebellion.
A businessman from St. Petersburg (northwest), the boss of the Wagner paramilitary group, died Wednesday, August 23, when his plane crashed northwest of Moscow.
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If the Kremlin denied involvement, the accident aroused suspicion from Ukraine and the West. On Sunday, Russia’s Investigative Committee confirmed Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death after “molecular genetic expertisewithout mentioning either the accident thesis or the bomb or surface-to-air missile thesis.