Scurrilous action

Prigozhin statue was given a dildo

The statue of Yevgeny Prigozhin in St. Petersburg(Bild: NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP, Ulf Mauder/dpa (beide picturedesk.com), Krone KREATIV)

In St. Petersburg, unknown persons have damaged the statue of the deceased mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. Among other things, a dildo was forced into her hand, as a photo on Platform X shows.

There is also white paint on the sculpture's chest and face. No one initially claimed responsibility for the attack. Prigozhin's monument was unveiled in St. Petersburg just three weeks ago. Behind the statue is a memorial plaque with the life dates of the leader of the Russian private army Group Wagner.

Here you can see the photo of the damaged statue:

The reactions under the photo on Platform X are predominantly positive. One user commented that Prigozhin looks much better now. Another said "beautiful work of art" and that it looked as if SpongeBob SquarePants had been at the party. Russians are constantly building monuments to idiots, wrote another.

Former Putin friend
Prigozhin got to know the future Russian President Vladimir Putin as a chef in the 1990s. Since 2014, he has been the head of the private army Group Wagner, which is active in several African countries and ultimately also took part in the attack on Ukraine. However, Prigozhin was vocal in his criticism of how the war was conducted; his own army was and is accused of numerous war crimes.

He came into conflict with the Russian Ministry of Defense and called for an uprising on 23 June 2023. Under his leadership, his troops marched towards Moscow, took over military facilities without a fight, but broke off the uprising the very next day after negotiations.

Two months later, Prigozhin, military leader Dmitry Utkin and other members of the Wagner group were killed in a plane crash in central Russia. The circumstances have still not been clarified. Prigozhin was previously thought to be in Belarus.