Men in military gear lay flowers in St Petersburg as Kremlin keeps silent on Wagner chief’s apparent death
Wagner fighters and a few dozen members of the public have gathered at a makeshift memorial for Yevgeny Prigozhin in his home town of St Petersburg as the Kremlin kept its silence on the warlord’sFootage of the memorial set up outside Wagner’s headquarters in the city showed men in military camouflage on Thursday laying flowers on the ground in front of portraits of Prigozhin, a close Prigozhin ally often described as the founder of the mercenary group who was also named on the passenger list.
One resident, Vitaly Stepenok, 72, told Reuters he heard an “explosion or a bang” before seeing the jet plummet to the ground.“Usually, if an explosion happens on the ground then you get an echo, but it was just a bang and I looked up and saw white smoke,” Stepenok said. “One wing flew off in one direction and the fuselage went like that,” he said, gesturing with his arms to show how the plane headed down towards the ground. “And then it glided down on one wing.
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