The Wagner mercenary group's second-in-command is buried in a quiet Moscow ceremony – Winnipeg Free Press
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The man who is believed to have given Russian mercenary group Wagner its name was buried Thursday during a quiet ceremony at a military cemetery in Moscow. Dmitry Utkin died in an Aug. 23 plane crash that killed all 10 people on board, including Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and his other top lieutenants. The crash between Moscow and St. Petersburg happened two months after Prigozhin led his fighters in a brief mutiny against Russia's military leadership.
The video appears to have been filmed shortly before the Wagner chief died in a plane crash.
Skeptics say v Prigozhin's new video, and other factors paint a picture of an assassination target who may have faked his own death.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of Russian private mercenary group Wagner, gives an address in camouflage inside a vehicle at an unknown location, in this still…