The commander of PMC “Wagner” Dmitry Utkin was buried in Mytyshchy

The funeral of the commander of PMC “Wagner” Dmitry Utkin was held today in Mytyshchy near Moscow.

According to SHOT telegram channel, Utkin was buried at the memorial cemetery with military honors. An orchestra played during the ceremony. Security was provided by the police and the Russian Guard. The employees were, among other things, with anti-drone guns. Sever.Realii project with reference to the local publication MSK1.RU writes that ordinary visitors and journalists were not allowed to the cemetery. At the same time, “Wagnerovtsy” passed calmly, notes SOTA.

Earlier on Thursday, it was reported that the cemetery in Mytyshchy was cordoned off by the military police at the request of Utkin’s family, who insisted on holding the ceremony without the press. The Sever.Realii project, with reference to the local edition MSK1.RU, writes that security was posted along the fence – approximately two Russian Guardsmen every 150 meters. The police officers on duty at the scene inspected the approaching cars with dogs.

According to the anonymous channel of the Cheka-OGPU, 50 people from the immediate environment were invited to the funeral. The same Telegram channel published a picture that allegedly shows the grave of Dmitry Utkin.

Utkin died on August 23 as a result of the crash in the Tver region of the private plane of the founder of PMC “Wagner” Evgeny Prigozhin. All ten people on board became victims of the plane crash. Yevgeny Prigozhin was buried on August 29 at the Porohovsky cemetery in St. Petersburg.

53-year-old Dmitry Utkin with the call sign “Wagner” served as a GRU special forces officer at the PMC, where he held the rank of lieutenant colonel. Utkin is a four-time knight of the Order of Courage. He was photographed at a reception in the Kremlin together with President Vladimir Putin.

In 2017, a video of the brutal murder of a Syrian soldier was published on the Internet. He was beaten, his head was cut off, his hands were chopped off with a shovel, doused with gasoline and burned. The former commander of the reconnaissance company “PMC Wagner” Marat Gabidullin published his memoirs, in which he claimed that “Wagner” himself – PMC commander Dmitriy Utkin – called for murder and torture, with the aim of scaring other potential deserters.