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.

Former Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the recent meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave him the “first sliver of hope I’ve had in a

US President Donald Trump says he wants Russia’s Vladimir Putin to “stop shooting” in Ukraine and sign a peace deal, a day after meeting Ukraine’s President at the Vatican. . Trump, who boasted before his inauguration that he could halt Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a day,