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”.

It was the first time that Zelenskyy and Trump had met face to face after a frosty February encounter in the White House where Trump and the US vice-president, JD Vance, berated the Ukrainian leader and accused him of ingratitude for US aid.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Trump is such a fucking idiot. Don’t waste your time thinking about this.

    I’m an American, and I want my taxes going to Ukraine. This fucking asshole removed those. Fuck him. Fuck. Him.

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      13 hours ago

      Yeah, I’d much rather Ukraine than Israel. It’s so much cheaper to let Ukraine whittle Russia down than deal with Russia directly. Let’s give them whatever support they ask for until Russia hopefully collapses.