Remains identified by Moscow as those of the rogue warlord were buried next to his father in the Porokhovskoye cemetery in his hometown of St. Petersburg, according to his press service and Russian…
Yevgeny Prigozhin is pictured in a March video in which he calls on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to withdraw forces from Bakhmut in Ukraine.Russian President Vladimir Putin, seen in 2010 with Prigozhin, did not attend the funeral of his former longtime ally.
Although Prigozhin had previously reportedly been awarded Russia’s highest military honor for leading his band of Kremlin-funded mercenaries into Ukraine to supplement the country’s unprovoked invasion, his private funeral was devoid of the pomp and circumstance that would traditionally adorn one for a decorated war hero.
A funeral was also held at another St. Petersburg cemetery Tuesday for Wagner’s logistics chief, Valery Chekalov, who was killed in the crash along with Dmitry Utkin, Prigozhin’s second-in-command, and four fighters and bodyguards.
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