President Donald Trump took some time to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during his recent trip to Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis. 

Breitbart News reports that the meeting has the "potential to become historic."

The meeting has to do with the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Trump and his administration have been trying to broker a peace deal, but it has been a struggle.

It is worth noting that this was Trump and Zelensky's first meetup since the Oval Office blow-up that took place earlier this year - the one where Zelensky was sent packing after he was, in the view of the administration, "disrespectful" to Americans and the Trump administration.

The meetup

Both Trump and Zelensky were in Rome, over the weekend, to attend the funeral of the recently deceased Pope Francis. There, they were joined by many past and present world leaders.

Although that was their primary reason for being in Rome, it appears that both leaders saw this as an opportunity to work on the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

Breitbart reports:

Zelensky met with President Trump in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican after joining other world leaders in paying their respects to the Pope. A photograph of the meeting showed Trump and Zelensky sitting opposite each other in chairs within the grand sixteenth-century church.

The photo can be seen below.

The outlet continues:

The meeting came amid increasing tensions between Washington and Kyiv, which has so far baulked at the peace deal framework laid out by Trump administration negotiators, likely including Ukraine ceding land to Russia, which Zelensky has claimed is a non-starter despite having failed to have won back the land over the past three years of war.

"Good meeting"

After the meetup, Zelensky posted a message indicating that things had gone well.

He wrote:

Good meeting. We discussed a lot one on one. Hoping for results on everything we covered. Protecting lives of our people. Full and unconditional ceasefire. Reliable and lasting peace that will prevent another war from breaking out. Very symbolic meeting that has potential to become historic, if we achieve joint results. Thank you @POTUS.

Good meeting. We discussed a lot one on one. Hoping for results on everything we covered. Protecting lives of our people. Full and unconditional ceasefire. Reliable and lasting peace that will prevent another war from breaking out. Very symbolic meeting that has potential to… pic.twitter.com/q4ZhVXCjw0

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) April 26, 2025

The White House has also described the meetup as "very productive."

White House communications director Steven Cheung said, "President Trump and President Zelensky met privately today and had a very productive discussion. More details about the meeting will follow."