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Russia receives invitation to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.[Regnum] The Russian delegation was invited to the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy during World War II, which will take place on June 6, 2024. Agence France-Presse reported this on April 16,citing the organizers of the event, Mission Libération. “Given the circumstances, [Russian ] President Vladimir Putin is not invited [to the ceremony]. However, Russia is invited and will be represented in order to honor the importance of the participation and sacrifice of the Soviet people, as well as their contribution to the victory of 1945,” a company representative said. As Regnum reported, earlier on April 16, the leader of the French Patriots party, Florian Philippot, wrote that Paris’s invitation to Russia to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Allied landing in Normandy would be bad news for the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky. According to him, Kiev will try to put pressure on French President Emmanuel Macron in this regard.  Earlier on the same day, French media reported the intention of the country's authorities to invite the Russian delegation to the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of the Allied landing in Normandy, which will take place in early June. According to radio station Europe 1, it will be difficult to do without Russia at the celebration, despite the difficult geopolitical situation. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on April 16 that Moscow has not yet received an invitation from France to the celebrations dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Allied landing in Normandy. The landing of the military of the United States, Britain, Canada and their allies on the territory of France occupied by the Nazi army (Operation Neptune) took place in Normandy on June 6, 1944 during the Second World War. Soviet soldiers did not directly participate in it, but the USSR made it possible through its military operations, paying the highest price during the Second World War. Posted by: badanov 2024-04-17 |
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