The pair reportedly covered a wide range of topics, from Russian sanctions to a proposed 30-day ceasefire between Kyiv and Moscow, during their 15-minute meeting on the sidelines of Pope Francis’s funeral last week.
“We had the right atmosphere for the conversation.”
Moscow has said it is awaiting Kyiv’s “final” response to a three-day ceasefire proposal laid out by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the TASS news agency reported on Saturday.
Here’s everything you need to know about what Trump and Zelensky’s meeting means for Ukraine as well as Russia’s proposed three-day truce.
Zelensky added that he brought up the topic of Russian sanctions with the US President, claiming Trump’s view on the matter is “very strong”.
“I am confident that after our meeting in the Vatican, President Trump began to look at things a bit differently,” he said, according to Interfax-Ukraine.
Zelensky (right) briefly met with French President Emmanuel Macron (left), Keir Starmer (second left) and Trump during Pope Francis’s funeral (Photo: Office of Ukrainian Presidential Press Service via Getty Images)“I think we behaved constructively and with integrity, and that matters.”
“They kill until the 7th, pause for a couple of comfortable days, then start attacking again on the 11th,” Zelensky said.
The Ukrainian President said Kyiv is willing to begin the 30-day truce – initially proposed by Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff – at any time, be it “the 1st, 3rd, 5th, or if he needs the 7th”.
How did the meeting in the Vatican shape the Ukraine-US minerals deal?
Zelensky has previously said the signing of a long-awaited US-Ukraine minerals deal was the first tangible result of the meeting in the Vatican, calling it a “historic” outcome.
The resources will remain under Ukrainian ownership, even though the US will get joint access.
Ukraine destroys Russian fighter jet from sea drone for ‘first time’
Ukraine destroyed a Russian fighter jet using a missile fired from a seaborne drone, the Ukrainian GUR military intelligence agency has reported.
The agency claims the attack marked the world’s first downing of a combat plane by a maritime drone
Its statement on social media says the fighter had been shot down by a military intelligence unit yesterday over waters near Novorossiisk, a major Russian port city on the Black Sea.
The mayor of Novorossiisk declared a state of emergency today after local authorities said a Ukrainian drone attack had damaged a grain terminal and several residential buildings, injuring five people.
It should be noted here that Ukraine has turned to drone warfare in the air and at sea as a way to fight back throughout the war.
And Ukraine’s seaborne drones have also wrought havoc on Russia’s Black Sea fleet.
Zelensky said on Saturday that the money would, at least initially, be reinvested and not leave Ukraine.
Zelensky also hopes that more investment will be directed into Ukraine’s air defences, which remains one of Kyiv’s main requests to its allies throughout the war.
“And so we are ready for air defence systems to be a contribution (to the fund). I told him about the number (of systems that we need) – he told me that they will work on it, (that) these things are not free.”
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