Ukraine's Poroshenko, Russia's Putin to attend D-Day anniversary


  • World
  • Thursday, 29 May 2014

MOSCOW/PARIS (Reuters) - Ukraine's president-elect Petro Poroshenko will attend the 70th anniversary of the World War Two "D-Day" landings in Normandy, his office said on Wednesday, potentially creating an opportunity for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Relations between Russia and Ukraine, neighbours that share close historical ties, are in tatters after protesters pushed a Moscow-friendly Ukrainian president from power in February and Russia annexed Crimea.

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