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Now playing Next France D-Day commemorations see parallels drawn between France and Ukraine “Kyiv maybe 2,000 kilometres away from here, they too, right now, today, are experiencing the same horrors as the French citizens experienced in World War II at the hands of the Nazi invader.” 06/06/2022
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