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On Thursday, June 6, commemorations were held marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day – the Allied invasion of German-occupied Normandy, France, during the Second World War.Leaders of the Allied powers (including Canada, France, the United Kingdom and the United States), as well as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, took part in a ceremony marking the event. Despite being on the Allied side from 1941-1945, Russian President Vladimir Putin was not invited to attend.FRANCE -- U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron look to flypasts in the Normandy American Cemetery to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Normandy. June 6, 2019The previous day – June 5 -- Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova had downplayed the D-Day landing, saying it was not a game-changer" for "the outcome of WWII and the Great Patriotic War" – the term used to describe the Soviet war effort on the eastern front against the Axis powers.Zakharova said the outcome of the war was "determined by the Red Army’s victories
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