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(Normandy, France) -- Monday marks the 78th anniversary of D-Day. World War Two veterans will be joined by thousands of visitors at the American Cemetery in Normandy. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will be on hand as U.S. Air Force aircraft fly over the burial site as part of a commemoration ceremony. This will be the first D-Day anniversary held without

Maurice Winspear, 98, who served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, spending four years on the front line in Italy on active service trying to end Mussolinis fascist regime, passed away with no loved ones.

Columnist Tom Breeden writes about some of the heroes from Ross County who lost their lives in times of war.

The full-scale war Russia has launched in Ukraine simply reinforced the Ukrainisation and Europeanisation of Ukrainian society.

In Ukraine, there was no let up in fighting, with missile strikes destroying buildings in the southern port of Odesa and a renewed push by Russian forces to defeat the last Ukrainian troops holding out in a steelworks in ruined Mariupol.

By Pavel Polityuk and Jonathan Landay

Putin's Victory Day speech gives no clue on Ukraine escalation | 2022-05-10 13:00:00

Generally and also from the beginning of this invasion in february of this year. yesterday during this parade, on the red square in moscow, he mentioned odesa specifically and of course thats what he did. absolutely now cynically heat yesterday near the kremlin there is a monument with the name of odesa native city in the city where i am now because odesa is one of the citymake heroes like they were caught in soviet times during war two. were caught in soviet times during wartwo. some were caugh...

He says, "i fell out of bed and started to cry. then i ran down the corridor to find my dog, max." mum tried to calm me down, but there were more explosions. we dont know what will happen next." the force of the blast smashed many of the windows in this block of flats. fortunately, most were unoccupied. katarina and her two—year—old daughter arina were on the other side of the courtyard. "we were about to go to bed when the air alert began," she tells me. "i heard a very loud explosion, and ...

By Pavel Polityuk and Jonathan Landay
KYIV/KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Buildings in Odesa lay in ruins on Tuesday, a day after Kremlin forces pounded the southern Ukrainian port with missiles and Russian President Vladimir Putin led defiant celebrations marking the Soviets victory over Nazi German...