President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy met on Saturday before the funeral of Pope Francis in the Vatican.
“We discussed a lot of one against one. Hoping for results on everything we have covered,” said Zelenskyy in an article on X on Saturday. “Protecting from our people. A full and unconditional ceasefire. Reliable and lasting peace will prevent another war from struggling.”
“Very symbolic meeting which has the potential to become historic, if we obtain joint results,” he concluded, thanking the American president.
The White House communications director Steven Cheung said the two “met in private today and had a very productive discussion”.
Later, Trump weighed on Putin in another apparent change of direction. “There was no reason for Putin to draw missiles in civil areas, cities and cities in recent days,” said the American president on his social platform Truth.
“It makes me think that he may not want to stop war, he simply makes me hit and must be treated differently, through” banks “or” secondary sanctions? Too many people die, “added Trump.
An eye-eye assembly
Meanwhile, in the historical photographs published by the Presidential Administration of Ukraine, the two leaders can be seen inside the Saint-Pierre basilica, sitting from each other while they are giving themselves up to the eye.
The direct and impromptu meeting in the basilica and the body language of the two leaders contrast strongly with the public snipes of the last days.
Shortly after his arrival in Rome on Friday, Trump said on social networks that Ukraine and Russia should come together for “very high level talks” by finishing the Moscow total war, now in its fourth year.
Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier Friday, and the American president said the two parties were “very close to an agreement”.
Additional sources • AP
