ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — A memorial service has taken place for mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin , who was killed in a plane crash last week, his spokespeople said Tuesday in a terse statement on social media.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — A memorial service has taken place for mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a plane crash last week, his spokespeople said Tuesday in a terse statement on social media.
It wasn’t clear from the statement if Prigozhin has already been buried or if it was still to happen. While it tried to avoid any pomp-filled ceremony for the man branded by Putin as a traitor for his June 23-24 rebellion, the Kremlin couldn't afford to denigrate Prigozhin, who was given Russia's highest award for leading Wagner forces in Ukraine and was idolized by many of the country's hawks.
“Prigozhin's funeral raises an issue of communication between the bureaucratic Russian government system that doesn't have much political potential and politically active patriotic segment of the Russian public,” Markov said. Also on Tuesday, a funeral was held at St. Petersburg’s Northern Cemetery for Wagner’s logistics chief Valery Chekalov, who died in the Aug. 23 crash alongside Prigozin.
The crash came exactly two months after the brutal and profane mercenary boss launched a rebellion against the Russian military leadership. Prigozhin ordered his mercenaries to take over the military headquarters in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don and then began a march on Moscow. They downed several military aircraft, killing more than a dozen pilots.
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