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Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin will be among those buried outside St. Petersburg today, according to Reuters. They quote Prigozhin’s own press agency. The agency asks all mourners to pay their respects at the cemetery. They also write that the funeral was private, according to AFP. Now deceased Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in December last year. The Wagner group has been important for Russia in the war against Ukraine. Photo: AP Earlier today, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would not attend Prigozhin’s funeral. Prigozhin and nine others died when a private plane crashed north of Moscow last week. It has been speculated whether Putin was behind it, which the Kremlin denies. Putin in a church this summer. Photo: Kremlin.ru/Sputnik / Mikhail Klimentyev Putin called him a traitor Vladimir Putin has called Prigozhin a traitor, after the Wagner group revolted and marched on Moscow at the end of June. At that time, the Wagner group shot down a plane from the Russian air force. Between one and six Russian helicopters were also destroyed, before the group surrendered. The future of the Wagner boss and the group was very unclear after the uprising. The Wagner group, which consists of mercenaries and convicts, has been important for Russia in the war against Ukraine. More funerals Wagner leader Valeriy Chekalov was also buried today, according to the local website fontanka.ru. Family and friends today said goodbye to the Wagner leader Valerij Chekalov. Photo: AFP He was responsible for the Wagner Group’s transport operations. And he was one of Prigozhin’s closest collaborators. The two were in the same Embraer Legacy 600 – the plane that crashed southwest of Moscow on August 23. The coffin of another Wagner leader, Valery Chekalov, today. Photo: OLGA MALTSEVA / AFP / NTB Witnesses heard explosions The cause of the plane crash is not formally known. Eyewitnesses are said to have heard two explosions before the private plane crashed to the ground. This provisional memorial to Dmitry Utkin and Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared at the weekend in the city of Nizhny Novgorod Photo: Reuters According to Putin’s press spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the president had nothing to do with the plane crash. Commenting on Prigozhin’s death, Putin recently said he was a man who made many mistakes. Yevgeny Prigozhin may be buried at the Serafimovsky Cemetery in his hometown of St. Petersburg. Photo: Reuters



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