Summary The Russian president is set to meet British PM David Cameron at the events in Normandy.
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin does not plan to meet Ukraine s president elect Petro Poroshenko when he attends D-Day anniversary events in France on Friday, his spokesman told AFP.
"This question is not being worked upon," Putin s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday when asked whether the leaders would meet in France.
Pro-Western billionaire and chocolate company owner Poroshenko, who won last month s presidential election in Ukraine, is also due to attend the commemorations.
He has been trying to arrange what would be the first meeting between Putin and a Ukrainian leader since Russia s seizure of Crimea sparked the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War.
Putin is set to meet British Prime Minister David Cameron at the events in Normandy to mark the Allied landings that proved a turning point in World War II.
On Thursday evening, he will have dinner with French President Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace.
