Tue 29 August 2023:
On Tuesday, the Kremlin declared that it is “not foreseen” that Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the funeral of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.
“The president’s presence is not foreseen. We don’t have information specifically about the funeral. The decision on this matter is made by relatives and friends, here we can’t say anything without them,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists in a press briefing.
Last week, an Embraer-135 aircraft went down near the village of Kuzhenkino in Russia’s Tver region while traveling from the capital Moscow to St. Petersburg, killing all 10 passengers on board, including Prigozhin.
The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) released a list of the names of individuals onboard the aircraft, which also included Wagner co-founder Dmitry Utkin and other Wagner personnel.
Russia’s Investigative Committee later said on Sunday that it completed the genetic identification of those who died in the private jet crash, declaring they are the same as the list published by Rosaviatsiya.
Putin extended his condolences to the families of the victims, calling Prigozhin a “talented man with a difficult fate.”
Prigozhin made headlines in June when he launched an “armed rebellion” against the Russian leadership before quickly aborting it after a deal brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
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