A day after NATO officials in Washington and Kyiv discussed Russia's war in Ukraine, U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met briefly at the Vatican before Pope Francis’ funeral.
Zelenskyy called their one-on-one meeting – which lasted for about 15 minutes on Saturday morning in simple chairs beneath the rare fragment of an iconic 8th-century mosaic, the Epiphany, at St. Peter’s Basilica – "a symbolic meeting with the potential to become historic if joint results are achieved," and pointedly said he had "expressed gratitude" to Trump.
