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(29 Aug 2023)
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1. People at makeshift memorial to Wagner members killed in plane crash near Kremlin
2. Portraits of Wagner's chief Yevgeny Prigozhin (right) and Wagner's second-in-command, Dmitry Utkin (left) and Wagner logistics chief Valery Chekalov (center)
3. Close of candles
4. Man standing at memorial
5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Oleg (last name not given), 61, musician:
"It's a big tragedy for our people. May the memory of the heroes live forever. We should remember them because these people determine the direction of development for all our people. This tragedy won't fade away simply. It will stay in our hearts. We will always remember. May their memory live forever."
6. People looking at memorial
7. Prigozhin's portrait
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Stanlislav (last name not given), 59, Moscow resident:
"It's sad. But we will win anyway, we can't lose. I would have put a monument to them, without a fuss, because there are real men."
9. Various of woman lighting up candle
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Yevgeny Sobolev, 59:
"The entire country is mourning, all normal sober-minded people are mourning and worrying about this person and about all Wagner fighters and our guys."
11. People looking at memorial
12. Banner reading (Russian): "To be a fighter is to live eternally."
13. Wide of memorial
STORYLINE:
Russians in Moscow laid flowers Tuesday at a makeshift memorial to Wagner fighters killed in last week's plane crash.

People laid flowers and lit up candles at the makeshift memorial to Wagner's chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and his top brass. several hundred meters (yards) away from the Kremlin.

A 59-year-old Yevgeny Sobolev said the country is mourning the death of Prigozhin and other Wagner fighters.

A musician from Moscow Oleg said it was a tragedy for all Russians.

The country’s top criminal investigation agency, the Investigative Committee, officially confirmed Prigozhin’s death on Sunday.

The committee didn’t say what might have caused Prigozhin’s business jet to plummet from the sky minutes after taking off from Moscow for St. Petersburg.

Just before the crash, Prigozhin had returned from a trip to Africa, where he sought to expand Wagner Group’s activities.

Prigozhin’s second-in-command, Dmitry Utkin, a retired military intelligence officer who gave the mercenary group its name based on his own nom de guerre, was also among the 10 people who died in the crash.

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