The White House said Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy 'met privately today and had a very productive discussion.'

The office of Zelensky shared a picture of Trump and Zelensky engaged in conversation at St. Peter’s Basilica.

US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held crunch war talks in the heart of the Vatican minutes before the start of the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, as the White House mounts an increasingly urgent push to strike a peace deal in Ukraine.