Terrorist and Wagner member Dmitry Utkin is buried without honours in Russia
Terrorist Dmitry Utkin, the Wagner Group commander who was on board the plane that killed mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and his associates from the Wagner leadership, has been buried without honours in Mytishchi near Moscow.
Source: Russian media MSK1.RU; Telegram channels SHOT and Sirena
Details: It is reported that the co-founder of the Wagner Group was not buried with full military honours.
For example, his coffin was brought to the cemetery without a company of honour guard, on a gun carriage in a Tiger armoured vehicle, and no artillery shots were fired.
Utkin was buried in the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery in Mytishchi.
The entrance to the cemetery was guarded by special forces with anti-drone guns.
Wagner members were only allowed to go in after showing their dog tags.
Civilians were not allowed to enter during Utkin's funeral.
From the morning before the funeral, the cemetery was surrounded by riot police and Russian Guardsmen, and part of the road was blocked by traffic police. The press was not permitted to attend the funeral.
According to the Telegram channel VChK-OGPU, the terrorist was buried next to Russian Colonel Vitaly Tabachnikov, commander of the 112th Separate Helicopter Regiment of the 11th Air and Air Defence Army of the Russian Armed Forces [who was recently killed in Ukraine when his helicopter was shot down].
Background:
- On the evening of 23 August, a small plane crashed in Russia’s Tver Oblast. The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner Group, was listed as having been on board.
- The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency posted a full list of the passengers on the plane that crashed in Russia’s Tver Oblast on the evening of 23 August. Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the list.
- Media reports have revealed details of the funeral of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, which took place on Tuesday evening, and what happened after the ceremony.
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