Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump had a brief bilateral meeting in Rome ahead of Pope Francis’ funeral. The announcement was made by Sergei Nikiforov, spokesman for the Kiev leader, without specifying what the two leaders agreed on, IPN reports.
Sky News comments that today’s “productive” meeting was the first since Zelenskyy and Trump’s spat in the Oval Office of the White House on February 28. The source concludes that the presidents set further talks after the funeral service.
The two presidents’ meeting comes a day after Russian leader Vladimir Putin met Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy to Moscow. Their talks gave progress in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, according to Iurii Usakov, the Kremlin’s presidential foreign policy adviser.