Published on
20/05/2025 – 17:31 GMT+2
Kyiv is eager about an instantaneous face-to-face assembly between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha stated in Brussels on Tuesday, confirming that the Vatican proposed to host the talks.
“I can confirm to you that proposals to organise possible contacts, including at the level of leaders, were made by the Vatican”, he stated to Euronews’ query, including that Ukraine is able to “consider potential venues for such a meeting.”
The Ukrainian president additionally mentioned a conceivable assembly together with his US counterpart Donald Trump, Sybiha stated.
After the telephone calls with Putin and Zelenskyy on Monday, Trump stated he believed the dialog with the Russian president “went very well” and that “Russia wants to do large-scale trade with the United States when this catastrophic ‘bloodbath’ is over.”
“The Vatican, as represented by the pope, has stated that it would be very interested in hosting the negotiations. Let the process begin,” Trump added.
Ukraine’s international minister stated there was once a “wonderful, extremely warm and meaningful meeting between President Zelenskyy and Pope Leo XIV” on the Holy See on Sunday, all through the ideally suited pontiff’s inauguration celebrations.
Zelenskyy was once the primary chief to satisfy the ideally suited pontiff after his inauguration, Sybiha added.
