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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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William Christou

Trump says he fears Putin ‘may be tapping me along’ after Zelenskyy meeting

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) meets  US President Donald Trump (L) on the sidelines of Pope Francis's funeral at St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican.
Donald Trump, left, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral, deep in conversation in St Peter’s Basilica. Photograph: Ukrainian Foreign Ministry/AFP/Getty Images

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have sat down for a face-to-face talk in the opulent halls of a Vatican basilica to discuss a possible ceasefire, after which the US president accused his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, of not wanting to “stop the war”.

The White House described Trump’s meeting with the Ukrainian leader before Pope Francis’s funeral as “very productive”, while Zelenskyy said on X that the talk with the US president was symbolic and had the “potential to become historic, if we achieve joint results”.

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