How have Trump-Putin-Zelensky tensions shaped the latest Ukraine peace efforts? The world watched as U.S. President Donald Trump met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Rome on April 26, 2025. Their brief but intense discussion at the Vatican,

President Donald Trump revealed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked him for more weapons during their meeting in the Vatican before Pope Francis’s funeral.

The United States has been pushing Ukraine to accept a peace plan that seems in part a gift to Moscow. But the short meeting of the leaders, and subsequent comments, appeared to be a change in tone.