Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be invited to a event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The French organisers of the event confirmed the Russian President is barred from entering the event as a result of the ongoing war in Ukraine. The commemorations in June mark the day when more than 150,000 Allied soldiers invaded France to drive out the forces of Nazi Germany. Millions of Soviet soldiers died in the war. Putin has rarely left Russia since the invasion of Ukraine, in part because of an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant for his arrest that Moscow sa…