While preparations for a secret funeral for the Wagner chief were underway in St. Petersburg, the Kremlin said it was unaware of planned arrangements.
"There are no plans for the president to attend," Peskov said."We don't have any information about the funeral. This is a decision for family and friends."On Sunday, the Russian Investigative Committee announced that genetic tests confirm that Prigozhin was one of 10 people killed when a private jet he owned that had been flying from Moscow to St. Petersburg crashed near the village of Kuzhenkino in Russia's Tver region on August 23.
Yevgeny Prigozhin shows Russian President Vladimir Putin his school lunch factory outside St. Petersburg on September 20, 2010. Putin is skipping the Wagner Group chief's funeral, the Kremlin said Tuesday.The cause of the crash wasn't immediately clear, although some reports suggest the jet was downed by Russian air defenses. Ukraine, where Wagner mercenaries had been heavily involved in the war's fighting, has denied responsibility.
Prigozhin's business jet crashed exactly two months after he led an uprising against Russia's military leadership. His mercenaries marched toward Moscow after taking control of the southern city of Rostov, then turned back less than 24 hours after the mutiny had begun.
I must say, this is remarkable. Yet, it is only the next logical step. In the context of the fight for supremacy Putin must now go the full 9 yards and destroy Wagner from top to bottom. The top is gone and now he goes through the ranks and file, even those in death. The very…
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