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COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France , Jun 6 (AP) \u2014 The United States and its allies will keep providing \u201csignificant\u201d support to Ukraine out of respect for the legacy of D-Day soldiers, whose victory over the Nazis helped lead to a new world order and a \u201cbetter peace,\u201d Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Monday.<\/p>\n
In an interview with The Associated Press overlooking Omaha Beach in Normandy, Milley said Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine undermines the rules established by Allied countries after the end of World War II. He spoke on the 78th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Allied troops onto the beaches of France, which led to the overthrow of Nazi Germany\u2019s occupation.<\/p>\n
One fundamental rule of the\u201cglobal rules-based order\u201d is that \u201ccountries cannot attack other countries with their military forces in acts of aggression unless it\u2019s an act of pure self-defense,\u201d he stressed. \u201cBut that\u2019s not what\u2019s happened here in Ukraine. What\u2019s happened here is an open, unambiguous act of aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is widely considered to undermine the rules that these dead \u2014 here at Omaha Beach and at the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer \u2014 have died for. They died for something. They died for that order to be put in place so that we would have a better peace,\u201d Milley said, speaking at the American Cemetery overlooking the shore in the northwestern French village at Colleville-sur-Mer.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why \u201cthe nations of Europe, the nations of NATO, are supporting Ukraine with lethal and nonlethal support in order to make sure that that rule set is underwritten and supported,\u201d Milley explained.<\/p>\n
Dozens of veterans \u2014 now all in their 90s, from the U.S., Britain, Canada and elsewhere \u2014 were taking part in poignant D-Day ceremonies Monday.<\/p>\n
On June 6, 1944, Allied troops landed on French beaches code-named Omaha, Utah, Juno, Sword and Gold, carried by 7,000 boats. On that single day, 4,414 Allied soldiers lost their lives, 2,501 of them Americans. More than 5,000 were wounded. On the German side, several thousand were killed or wounded. The massive invasion helped lead to Hitler\u2019s defeat and the end of World War II.<\/p>\n
Asked about whether Ukraine gets enough support, Milley noted \u201cthere\u2019s a very, very significant battle going on in the Donbas,\u201d in reference to Ukraine\u2019s heavily contested eastern industrial region bordering Russia. \u201cBut Kyiv (the capital) was protected and successfully defended against. The Russians had to shift their forces to the south in the Donbas. And we\u2019ll see how this plays out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that the United States and the allied countries are providing a significant amount of support to Ukraine, and that will continue,\u201d he said. He didn\u2019t elaborate.<\/p>\n
Milley also had strong words about Ukraine at the ceremony at the American Cemetery, attended by over 20 World War II veterans and several thousand spectators.<\/p>\n
\u201cKiev may be 2,000 kilometers away from here, they too, right now, today, are experiencing the same horrors as the French citizens experienced in World War II at the hands of the Nazi invader,\u201d Milley said in his speech. \u201cLet\u2019s not those only here be the last witnesses to a time when our Allies come together to defeat tyranny.\u201d<\/p>\n
Milley\u2019s parents served during World War II and his uncle was in the Navy off Normandy\u2019s coast on D-Day as part of Operation Overlord.<\/p>\n
That generation of soldiers \u201cfought and sacrificed for all of us… And I have a very, very special bond with them. And I\u2019m very respectful of what they\u2019ve done. And I think we all \u2014 all of us today \u2014 need to carry on the legacy that they fought and died for,\u201d Milley said.<\/p>\n
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