The office of Zelensky shared a picture of Trump and Zelensky engaged in conversation at St. Peter’s Basilica.

US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held crunch war talks in the heart of the Vatican minutes before the start of the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, as the White House mounts an increasingly urgent push to strike a peace deal in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump, a man who cares deeply about where he is placed on a seating chart, seemed pleased to score a plum front-row seat at Pope Francis’s funeral in Vatican City on Saturday. But more significant than Trump’s seat for the main event were the two red jacquard chairs that had been pulled off to the side in St.