For fifteen minutes, Ukraine’s wartime champion secured a chance to try and win Trump over. Two months after his catastrophic 28 February visit to the Oval Office, where Trump and Vice President JD Vance mugged their visitor in front of the White House press corps, the two leaders sat together in a marbled hallway at St. Peter’s Basilica and attempted to make amends.
Just the two of them, sitting on a pair of chairs that would not be out of place in any American hotel conference centre, engaged in deep conversation with no audience, aides, translators nor note-takers, but with deep potential impact for millions of people in the warzone and beyond.
France’s President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Donald Trump speak with President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of Pope Francis’s funeral (Photo: Handout from the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service)
Further images showed that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron were also on-hand at one point, with the French President placing a supportive hand on Zelensky’s shoulder.
“There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns over the last few days”, he fumed on social media.
Trump then indicated he may soon unveil fresh sanctions against the Kremlin leader as a mark of his sudden realisation that perhaps Putin has been stringing him along.
“You don’t start a war 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles”, he exclaimed at the White House on 15 April. “When you start a war, you got to know you can win.”
Unfortunately for Ukraine, recent history suggests that Trump may soon revert to type, especially once his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, weighs in.
Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on April 25, 2025 (Photo: Kremlin.ru/Reuters)For Trump’s interlocuters, both foreign and domestic, the importance of being the last voice he hears on any issue is already well chronicled.
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