The president of the United States, Donald Trump, and his pair of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenzky, met this Saturday in the Vatican, in the previous funeral of Pope Francis.
The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, and the president of the United States, Donald Trump, held a meeting before Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday, according to Sergii NykyForov, spokesman for the Ukrainian President.
Zelensky had previously expressed his willingness to meet with Trump while both leaders were in Italy, although Trump did not mean journalists whether or not to talk to his Ukrainian counterpart in Rome.
Trump and Zelensky had not found face to face from the tense meeting in the Oval office in February, when the US leader rebuked his Ukrainian counterpart for not showing enough gratitude for the support of the United States. Uu. In the fight of his country against Russia.
There have been no immediate comments from the White House.
Strong presence of Latin American leaders at Pope Francis’s funeral
Five Latin American presidents, including Argentine Javier Milei, the Brazilian Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Ecuadorian Daniel Noboa, the Dominican Luis Abinader and the Honduran Xiomara Castro, are present today in the Plaza de San Pedro for the Fubertal of Pope Francis, where there is a strong presence of delegations.
Milei, compatriot of Pope Francis, in the front row, together with the Italian delegation headed by Sergio Mattarella and Giorgia Meloni, as the strict protocol that the funeral will follow.
While Lula, who arrived with his wife Janja, entered the Vatican square shortly after Milei did, a few minutes from the start of the solemn funeral and with bells in the background.
“We said goodbye to Pope Francis, in the place where we met him. Love felt on every face: children, youth, women, all united by gratitude and hope that he sowed,” said Xiomara Castro in a message from his X account.
“It was goodbye full of prayers, kisses to heaven, parents talking to their children of how he taught us: to love the poor, the forgotten, those who need the most,” the Honduran president continued, who shared a video of the moment of honors to the coffin.
Source: Ambito
