MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend Holocaust commemorations in Poland this month, Interfax news agency quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Tuesday.Sources told Reuters on Monday that Putin was unlikely to join world leaders gathering at the site of the Auschwitz death camp because distrust caused by the conflict in Ukraine has cast a pall on arrangements. “There is no such a trip on the president’s schedule,”Peskov said, adding that Putin had not received an official invitation to attend the events.Poland, which has criticised Moscow over its role in the Ukraine crisis, did not send …read more
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