The funerals of Pope Francis, in the Vatican Bazilica, were an occasion for a meeting between the presidents of the United States and Ukraine, in the future of the country, which is tortured by more than three years of war and continuously in the late Pontif’s prayers. A meeting, according to Zelensky, has the ability to “become historical” if “common results” are achieved.
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Among the many pictures that will remain from the last goodbye to Pope Francis, in addition to those in the funeral of the Pope, there is definitely a picture depicting the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and the President of Ukraine, Voludmimer Zelinski, in front of the other at the corner of Bazilica Saint Peru. An advertised meeting, then interrogating it in a possible absence of the second, and finally it happened. This is the first face to the two faces between the two, which lasted 15 minutes, after the dramatic that occurred on the global television of the White House Oval Office, which came out without participating in the press conference.
A very fruitful interview
The meeting, according to the White House Communications Director, Steve Cheung, was “very fruitful”. The Ukrainian presidency also posted a picture of another short conversation between Trump and Zelinski in the Vatican, this time to include British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron. According to Ukrainian presidential spokesperson, Sergey Nikiforov, Zelinski and Trump agreed to continue negotiations. Zelinski, who wrote in X, talked about a “good meeting” “that could become historic if joint results are achieved. In particular, the Ukrainian President requested “a full and unconditional fire” and “a reliable and lasting peace that prevents the outbreak of another war.”
Presidents Trump, Zelinski and Macuna with British Prime Minister Starmer (ANSA)
Ukrainian antibiotics
According to the New York Times, Ukraine’s combat was also discussed at the meeting of the White House proposal to end the war. A plan that includes the deployment of a “European security squad” supported by the United States, not to mention the overall restoration of the regions occupied by Russia, or the adherence of Kyiv Lato, two issues that Zelensky has long not clarified negotiable.
Meanwhile, from Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that the Russian president of Russian employees had informed Putin about the “completion of the operation” to release the Russian Korsk region, which he partially occupied by the Ukrainians since August 2024. The European Commission President, Ursula von der Lin, today, shared a picture of her handshake with Trump in social media profiles.
Pola Benho, a spokeswoman for von der Layen, said that the European CEO and the American president, in his short exchange in Plaza de San Pedro, agreed to meet again. Encouraging signs to choose the course of dialogue, especially in the current context that is characterized by international duties and tensions.
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