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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Léonie Chao-Fong

D-day: Biden calls for supporting Ukraine in struggle against ‘dark forces’

Joe Biden shakes hands with a veteran
Joe Biden speaks with US second world war veteran Richard Stewart after he was awarded the Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur (French Legion of Honour) by French president Emmanuel Macron in Normandy, France, on Thursday. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Joe Biden has marked the 80th anniversary of the D-day landings in Normandy with an impassioned call to western allies to continue supporting Ukraine in the face of the “unending struggle between dictatorship and freedom”.

Speaking on Thursday at a ceremony at the Normandy American cemetery attended by his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, and dozens of surviving veterans from the second world war, Biden drew parallels between the Allied troops who fought to free Europe and the alliance of nations that came together to defend Ukraine against Russian aggression.

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