Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said the president would not attend the service. The Russian leader had decried the armed rebellion in June as “treason” and “a stab in the back”.
A private burial was held for Yevgeny Prigozhin, ending a tumultuous journey from St. Petersburg street thug to Kremlin-financed mercenary leader, following a suspicious plane crash two months after his brief mutiny that challenged the authority of President Vladimir Putin.
Members of the Russian National Guard were stationed along the fence at the cemetery, steering visitors away after it closed for the day. Police officer guards with an anti-drone gun at the entrance of the Porokhovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg.While it tried to avoid any pomp-filled ceremony for him, the Kremlin couldn’t afford to denigrate Prigozhin, who reportedly received Russia’s highest award for leading Wagner forces in Ukraine and was idolized by many of the country’s hawks.
Russian Rosguardia servicemen guard the Porokhovskoye cemetery after a memorial service for mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a plane crash last week, in St. Petersburg.The secretive service “became the final stage of a special operation to eliminate him,” said Tatiana Stanovaya, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Centre.
The committee didn’t say what might have caused Prigozhin’s business jet to plummet from the sky on August 23, minutes after taking off from Moscow for St. Petersburg. Just before the crash, Prigozhin had reportedly returned from a trip to Africa, where he sought to expand Wagner Group’s activities.Also on Tuesday, a funeral was held at St Petersburg’s Northern Cemetery for Wagner’s logistics chief Valery Chekalov, who was among the 10 people killed in the crash.
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