Ukraine appeals to France over Russian flags displayed outside some town halls

The flags were installed on the occasion of the anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany and the landing of Allied tros in Normandy.

"The embassy took diplomatic response measures, appealing to the Foreign Ministry of France and also drawing attention of the Elysée Palace to such an unacceptable situation," the Ukrainian Embassy in France td Ukrinform.

"We closely coerate with Ukrainian activists and are grateful to them for their vigilance and efficiency. And our French partners understand well who sows discord and chaos," diplomats noted.

Recently, the Embassy of Ukraine in France posted on Facebook a statement, in which it strongly disagreed with the actions of some representatives of the French local authorities and drew attention to the fact that the usurpation of history is a favorite weapon of Russian praganda, which apprriates the feat of millions of sdiers representing other nations, including Ukrainians.

"Russia has no moral right to apprriate the Victory in World War II and exploit it in its hybrid disinformation erations," the embassy said.

"The Kremlin's strategy of distorting history is designed to rally the pulation around the authoritarian regime and destroy the sidarity of the civilized world in its resistance to Russian aggression. Under Vladimir Putin, especially after the attempted annexation of Crimea in 2014, Moscow began to use the memory of the war as a to for mobilizing pele in a revanchist and aggressive militarized tone," the statement said.

Ukrainian diplomats asked local officials in France to refrain from "flying the national flag of the Russian Federation, which did not exist at the end of World War 2, on the buildings of French town halls and sites commemorating the Allied Victory over Nazi Germany."

As Ukrinform reported earlier, Russia has been invited to attend celebrations on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the landing of Allied tros in Normandy in early June, while there is no mention of an invitation for Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.