After Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed mutiny and subsequent death in a plane crash in the summer of 2023, his Wagner private military company fell apart. But traces of its existence can still be found—on the battlegrounds in Ukraine, where the regular army adopted the “meat-grinder” assault tactics and the practice of recruiting prison inmates as cannon fodder—and on the ground in Russia, where several cemeteries were transformed to memorialise the fighters buried there. Mediazona collected publicly available satellite imagery that shows this transformation.
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Pyramidal gravestones were mentioned in the article, but no pics. So I found this older article which has them on grass: https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-08-13/the-shadow-of-yevgeny-prigozhin-still-looms-over-the-wagner-cemetery-in-krasnodar.html Nothing spectacular, but I was wondering why the wite gravel was better visible on the satellite images. Turns out they aren’t big, so there’s lots of space between.