According to his press service, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been buried. The ceremony was said to have taken place privately in a cemetery on the outskirts of his hometown of St Petersburg.
According to the press service, the 62-year-old said goodbye during a funeral service in the nearest circle without an audience.
Does a grave become a place of pilgrimage?
Those interested who wanted to say goodbye to Prigozhin could do so at the Porokhovskoye cemetery, it said. Observers expect the tomb could become a pilgrimage site for thousands of Prigozhin’s followers.
Putin did not attend the funeral
Russian President Vladimir Putin did not attend Prigozhin’s funeral. “The presence of the president is not foreseen,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters when asked. The President’s Office has no concrete information about the funeral. According to Peskow, the preparations for the funeral service are a matter for the family.
According to official figures, Prigozhin died in a plane crash two months after he and his fighters briefly revolted against the leadership in Moscow. The cause of the crash of the private jet with ten people on board is still unclear. The machine crashed on its way from Moscow to Saint Petersburg in the Tver region.
Source: Krone
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