Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin . This was stated by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

However, there is still no precise information on when, where and in what form the funeral will be held for the head of the Wagner brigade, who was killed in recent days together with his faithful in an air crash while traveling on the Moscow-St. Petersburg route .

According to rumors, the burial could usually take place in the Serafimovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg

reserved for military burials , where - CNN reports - stringent security measures would have been adopted.

As for the accident of the aircraft on which the former "Putin's chef" was travelling, according to the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets it could have exploded due to a bomb placed in an air conditioner , which was allegedly "repaired" shortly before departure.

(Unioneonline/lf)

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