Russia has been invited to attend the 80th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy in June but President Putin is not welcome due to the invasion of Ukraine, the French organisers have said.
The Liberation Mission, which is in charge of the gathering of international leaders and veterans by the Normandy beaches on June 6, said that Russia’s “war of aggression had made it impossible to invite Putin”.
Russian representatives will be asked to attend “to honour the importance of the commitment and sacrifices of the Soviet peoples, as well as its contribution to the 1945 victory,” it added.
Putin’s non-attendance is no surprise. President Macron abandoned in 2022 his drive to woo Putin into a special relationship, an effort that included hosting
