Biden links defense of Ukraine to heroism of D-Day as he warns ‘dark forces’ have not faded: ‘We will not walk away’

Eighty years to the day that British, American, and Canadian soldiers landed in France and began the fight to liberate Europe that would end with the death of Hitler and defeat of Nazi Germany, President Joe Biden told an audience - that included dignitaries and nearly three dozen veterans of the battle on Normandy beaches - that their war against fascism is echoed in the fight against Russian aggression being waged by Ukrainian soldiers and their allies today.

told the assembled veterans, , that it was his “highest honor” to salute them and recalled how several of those