Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that his meeting with President Donald Trump at the Vatican a week ago was the “most substantive” the two have ever held.
Speaking to reporters in Kyiv on May 2, Zelenskyy said the encounter with Trump, which took place on the sidelines of Pope Francis’s funeral on April 26, marked a shift in tone and substance between the two leaders.
“I believe our conversation with President Trump was the best we’ve had so far. It may have been the shortest, but it was the most substantive. With all due respect to our teams, I think the one-on-one format worked best,” Zelenskyy said, Ukrainian news agency Interfax-Ukraine reports….