By AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not go to the funeral of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died last week in a plane crash, the Kremlin said Tuesday.
Prigozhin — a Putin confidant turned “traitor” — was killed last Wednesday two months after ordering his troops to topple Russia’s military leadership, in what observers deemed the biggest challenge to Putin’s authority since he came to power.
“The president’s presence is not envisaged;’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Tuesday when asked whether Putin would attend the funeral. Read more
