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“Zelenskyy arrives at ceremony for day of Normandy landings: Macron meets him IRYNA KUTIELIEVA — THURSDAY, 6 JUNE 2024, 18:08, UKRAINSKA PRAVDA

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife Olena arrived at Omaha Beach, where a ceremony to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Allied landing in Normandy will be held.
Source: European Pravda with reference to Le Figaro https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/news/2024/06/6/7187590/

The Zelenskyys were met by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte.

As noted, the audience met the Ukrainian president with loud applause.


Zelenskyy will also hold meetings with US President Joe Biden. The day after the Normandy celebrations Zelenskyy is expected in Paris. https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/news/2024/06/5/7187455/

Zelenskyy will also meet with French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu and visit the KNDS Group companies near Paris, where artillery ammunition is manufactured.

The visit’s programme also includes Zelenskyy’s speech at the rostrum of the National Assembly, the Lower House of the French parliament, and talks with its head, Yaël Braun-Pivet, who came to Ukraine in March.
It also became known that Zelenskyy will take part in the G7 summit on 13-15 June in Italy. https://pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/06/3/7458920/
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Watch the ceremony here at France 3 Normandie:
“80 ans du Débarquement. Vivez en direct la cérémonie commémorative internationale à Omaha Beach” https://www.youtube.com/live/prwhp2gL7vM


“Second World War: Europe; “Into the Jaws of Death — U.S. Troops wading through water and Nazi gunfire”, circa 1944-06-06. Chief Photographer’s Mate (CPHoM) Robert F. Sargent Records of the US Coast Guard (NAID 355) Normandy D-Day”

“Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial Official White House Photo” by Pete Souza
“Omaha Beach was one of five beach landing sectors of the amphibious assault component of Operation Overlord during the Second World War. On June 6, 1944, the Allies invaded German-occupied France with the Normandy landings.[1] “Omaha” refers to an 8-kilometer (5 mi) section of the coast of Normandy, France, facing the English Channel, from east of Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes to west of Vierville-sur-Mer on the right bank of the Douve river estuary. Landings here were necessary to link the British landings to the east at Gold with the American landing to the west at Utah, thus providing a continuous lodgement on the Normandy coast of the Baie de Seine (Bay of the Seine river). Taking Omaha was to be the responsibility of United States Army troops, with sea transport, and a naval bombardment force provided predominantly by the United States Navy and Coast Guard, with contributions from the British, Canadian and Free French navies.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Beach