Farewell to the head of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin was held in a closed format, his press service reports. He was buried in a cemetery in St. Petersburg.
“Farewell to Evgeny Viktorovich took place in a closed format. Those who wish to say goodbye can visit the Porokhovskoe cemetery, ”the message reads.
An MSK1.RU correspondent was told at the cemetery that Prigozhin was buried at about 13:00. When asked why the place of burial was not previously reported, they said at the cemetery: “It was the wish of the relatives.” Dozhd adds that Prigozhin was buried next to his father.
Today, two cemeteries in St. Petersburg were cordoned off — Serafimovskoye in the Old Village and Severnoye in the Vyborgsky District. It soon became known that one of the leaders of the Wagner PMC, Valery Chekalov (call sign Rover), who was among the passengers of the plane that crashed near Tver, was buried at the Northern Cemetery. The time and place of Prigozhin's funeral was not announced in advance.
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