US Vice President JD Vance met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Rome on Sunday (native time) on the sidelines of Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural mass at Saint Peter’s Sq. in Vatican Metropolis.
In line with an announcement from the Workplace of the Vice President, the main target of the assembly was on the continued battle between Russia and Ukraine, with discussions centred on their shared goal of halting the bloodshed in Ukraine.
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio was additionally current on the assembly.
Each events additionally mentioned the present standing of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul, Turkiye, which goal to realize a ceasefire and set up lasting peace within the area.
“This afternoon in Rome, Italy, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The leaders mentioned their shared purpose of ending the bloodshed in Ukraine and offered updates on the present state of negotiations for a ceasefire and lasting peace,” the assertion from the VP’s workplace learn.
All three had been among the many attendees of Sunday’s two-hour-long liturgy within the Vatican, together with the President of Peru, Dina Boluarte, the nation the place Pope Leo served as each a missionary and a bishop for a number of many years.
The negotiations in Istanbul had been the primary face-to-face assembly of each nations after three years of robust army confrontation.
Earlier, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov and welcomed the prisoner alternate settlement reached throughout Russia-Ukraine talks.
Throughout his dialog on Saturday, Rubio reiterated Trump’s message, stating, “The dying and destruction should cease.”
Secretary Rubio welcomed the prisoner alternate settlement reached throughout the Might 16 session of the Ukraine-Russia talks and delivered President Trump’s sturdy message: “America is dedicated to reaching a long-lasting finish to the Russia-Ukraine struggle,” in response to the US State Division.
“The excellent peace plan proposed by the USA outlines one of the simplest ways ahead. The Secretary emphasised President Trump’s name for a direct ceasefire and an finish to the violence,” the assertion added.
Earlier in that day, US President Donald Trump stated that he would maintain separate telephone calls along with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with an goal to cease the “massacre.”
“I will probably be talking, by phone, to President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Monday, at 10:00 am The themes of the decision will probably be stopping the ‘massacre’ that’s killing, on common, greater than 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian troopers per week, and commerce…,” Trump wrote on ‘Reality Social’.
“I’ll then be talking to President Zelenskyy of Ukraine and numerous members of NATO. Hopefully, it is going to be a productive day, a ceasefire will happen, and this very violent struggle, a struggle that ought to have by no means occurred, will finish. God bless us all!!!” he added.