 Russian mercenaries gathered on August 29 for the funeral of one of Yevgeny Prygazin's deputies who was killed with his boss in a plane crash last week, though the Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin had no plans to attend Prygazin's funeral. The family of Valery Chekolov, the head of Wagner Logistics, was joined by dozens of people, some of whom Reuters identified as Wagner mercenaries, at the Severnoy Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia's former imperial capital. A Russian Orthodox priest said prayers and swung a censor before Chekolov's coffin as family, friends and former colleagues, some holding bunches of flowers, bade farewell, Reuters video showed. Some, including women and children in some lesses, came forward to kiss his coffin. Unidentified mourners at the funeral ordered a Reuters videographer and photographer to stop filming. The private emperor legacy, 600 private jet on which Prygazin was traveling to St. Petersburg from Moscow crashed in the Tver region north of Moscow on August 23 with the loss of all 10 people on board, including Chekolov, Dmitry Utkin, another top Wagner leader and four men reported to be Prygazin's bodyguards.