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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Andrew Roth in Washington

Amid plea to build bridges at papal funeral, Trump has a revelation – about Russia

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Donald Trump met the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at the funeral of Pope Francis at the Vatican. Photograph: Ukrainian Presidential Press Off/UPI/Rex/Shutterstock

It was a fitting moment for an epiphany, if that’s what this was. Donald Trump sat in the morning light in St Peter’s Basilica hunched over in conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as the assembled royalty and foreign leaders, the cardinals and bishops, and thousands of faithful gathered outside to prepare for the papal funeral.

His revelation soon came in the guise of a Truth Social post. “There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days,” Trump mused. “It makes me think that maybe [Putin] doesn’t want to stop the war.”

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