Kremlin Hints Putin Was Not Invited to Prigozhin’s Funeral
The mercenary chief is reportedly being laid to rest at a secretive funeral in St. Petersburg on Tuesday.
Reuters
Vladimir Putin will not be attending the funeral of his longtime friend-turned-foe Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Kremlin said Tuesday. Noting that Russian leadership does not have “any specific information” about the mercenary chief’s funeral, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov suggested that the Russian president had been left off the invite list. “The decision on this matter is made by relatives and friends. We can’t say anything without them,” Peskov told local media. Crowds of Wagner fighters were spotted carrying flowers into a St. Petersburg cemetery that was surrounded by police and security services on Tuesday, local outlet Fontanka reported. The press service for Prigozhin's Concord Managment later confirmed he had been laid to rest at a closed ceremony. It was reportedly attended only by family and friends. Prigozhin and his Wagner co-founder Dmitry Utkin were killed in a fiery plane crash along with several bodyguards last week, exactly two months after the mercenary group staged a violent mutiny and killed several Russian service members.
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