Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky met briefly at Pope Francis's funeral on Saturday, their aides said, marking their first encounter since a disastrous White House clash as the US president pushes the Ukrainian to make a peace deal with Russia.
Trump was rubbing shoulders with dozens of world leaders at St Peter's Basilica in Rome keen to bend his ear on the tariffs he has unleashed and other subjects.
But it was the meeting with Zelensky that drew the most interest as the US leader pushes the Ukrainian to make a peace deal with Russia.
The two leaders met briefly on the sidelines of the funeral before it started, a spokesman for the Ukrainian presidency said. "The meeting took place and is already over," Zelensky's spokesman Sergiy Nykyforov told journalists without providing further detail.
