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Do not let the US authorities attempts to find out all the circumstances of the death of the founder of the private military company “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin. U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Beth Van Shack said Tuesday, Aug. 29.
The official said “there was apparently some explosive device on board the plane that caused the plane to go down,” but the United States still trying to “understand exactly what happened.”
At the same time, a State Department spokeswoman emphasized that Washington continues to view Wagner as an “extremely dangerous” organization, despite the fact that “it has been left without a leader.”< /p>
According to official data, the founder of the Wagner company was on board a commercial plane that crashed in the Tver region during a flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation is investigating, the cause of the crash has not yet been officially named.
29. In August, it was revealed that Yevgeny Prigozhin was buried at the Porochov cemetery in St. Petersburg. to his father. A huge number of flowers were brought to the grave, and a frame was placed next to the cross, in which three quatrains from Joseph Brodsky's poem “Still Life” were written.
In an interview with MK correspondent, security forces confirmed that during the funeral ceremony nobody was. According to reports, the funeral took place in the middle of the day while the Porokhovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg was closed by forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Guard.