Trump, Zelensky Meet At Pope’s Funeral Weeks After White House Clash

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his US counterpart Donald Trump met on Saturday in Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral, after the White House said Kyiv and Moscow were “very close to a deal”, the Ukrainian presidency announced.

“The meeting took place and is already over,” Zelensky’s spokesman Sergiy Nykyforov told journalists.

This is their first in-person meeting since their clash in the Oval Office in February. The two leaders were not seated close to one another, per the New York Post, as the Vatican had seated delegations at the funeral in French alphabetical order.