‘Farewell ceremony’ for Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin ‘has taken place’

A ‘farewell ceremony’ for Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a plane crash last week, took place behind closed doors, a statement said (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP/PA)

A “farewell ceremony” for Russian Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a plane crash last week, took place behind closed doors, his spokespeople said on Tuesday in a short statement on social media.

“Those who wish to bid their farewell” to the mercenary leader should go to the Porokhovskoye cemetery in St Petersburg, his home town, the statement said.