The deceased comrade-in-arms Prigozhin was led on his last journey without a guard of honor company and artillery salvos.
On Thursday, August 31, Russian terrorist Dmitry Utkin, nicknamed “Wagner”, who was the commander of the mercenaries of Yevgeny Prigozhin's private military company, was buried near Moscow. It was by his nickname that the unofficial “Wagner Group” got its name, turning into the Wagner PMC.
Russian propagandists and Telegram channels report this.
How the funeral took place
The funeral took place at the Mitishchi memorial cemetery in the Moscow region. Unlike the funeral ceremony in St. Petersburg, where Yevgeny Prigozhin was buried, the farewell to Wagner passed without any special celebrations.
The coffin with the body was brought to the cemetery unaccompanied by a guard of honor on a cannon carriage with the help of an armored car “Tiger”. There were no artillery salvos during the funeral.
The entrance to the cemetery was guarded by security forces with anti-drone guns. In the morning, the territory around the memorial cemetery was cordoned off by OMON, the National Guard, and part of the road was blocked by traffic police. All cars moving towards the cemetery were inspected.
Civilians were not allowed to enter, “Wagnerites” were allowed to Utkin's funeral only with special tokens. There was also no press at the funeral ceremony.
In which cemetery is Wagner buried
The Federal War Memorial Cemetery in Mytishchi, near Moscow, where Utkin was buried, is one of the largest war memorials in Russia and is administered by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The categories of citizens who have the right to be buried here are defined by decree of the President of the Russian Federation. In particular, these are servicemen who “died (died) while defending the interests of the state,” who showed “valor and heroism” at the same time. Also on this list are the presidents of the USSR and Russia, Nobel Prize winners.
According to the Cheka-OGPU, the terrorist was buried next to Russian Colonel Vitaly Tabachnikov. He was the commander of the 112th Separate Helicopter Regiment, the 11th Army of the Russian Air Force and the Air Defense of the Russian Armed Forces.
Who is Dmitry Utkin
According to the Dossier Center, Utkin was born on Tyun 11, 1970 in the city of Asbest, Sverdlovsk Region, entered a military school in St. Petersburg, participated in the Chechen wars, and then was the commander of the 700th separate special forces detachment in Pechory, Pskov Region of the Russian Federation.
In 2013, Utkin retired from the reserve and went to Syria as part of a small Russian PMC Slavyansky Korpus, which, according to Fontanka, guarded the oil infrastructure. After a clash with Islamic State units, the mercenaries returned to Russia.
Utkin took the call sign “Wagner” after his first trip to Syria in 2013, as he began to get involved in the ideology of neo-Nazism. Fontanka described Utkin as a man known for his “commitment to the aesthetics and ideology of the Third Reich, hence the call sign in honor of the mystical composer (Richard Wagner was Adolf Hitler's favorite composer).”
Evgeny Prigozhin publicly admitted that he created PMC “Wagner” in 2014 after the start of the conflict in the Donbass.
Recall that the Federal Air Transport Agency confirmed that the terrorists Yevgeny Prigozhin and his right-hand man Dmitry Utkin were on board the plane, which crashed on August 23 in the Tver region of the Russian Federation.
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