Last Saturday, before Pope Francis’ funeral, Volodimir Zelenski talked to Donald Trump for 15 minutes, with sources revealing to Axios what the Ukrainian president said to his US counterpart in their first meeting.

According to sources, Zelenski stressed to Trump that Vladimir Putin would not retreat if the US president did not exert more pressure, with himself answering that he may need to change his approach with the Russian president, as well as his post.

Zelenski also pressured Trump to reinstates its original proposal For a ceasefire unconditionally, as a starting point for peace talks. It is recalled that Ukraine had accepted it but Russia rejected it.

In fact, according to the same information, the Trump seemed to agrees with the Ukrainian leader.

At the same time, Zelenski reiterated that is not going to recognize Crimea as Russian And Trump made it clear that he was not asking for that. It is noted that the plan provides for recognition by the US, not by Ukraine.

The same source noted that Zelenski told Trump that is not afraid to make concessions to terminate the warbut it takes enough strong security guarantees to make them.

Trump also pressed Zelenski during the conversation to sign the US-Ukraine Agreement for minerals as soon as possible.

According to Axios, Zelenski was going to give an interview to ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday morning – a day after the meeting – but decided to cancel her After some technical problems with translation.

“It was a great meeting and Zelenski didn’t want to risk‘, commented on a relatively source.

The backdrop of the unholy meeting

According to the report, Zelenski’s advisers were divisive As to whether he should meet the US president in the Vatican after their devastating conversation at the Oval Office. Some were nervous and stressed that they were not sure if it was a good idea.

Nothing had been finalized in advance, and the idea was initially that would They were trying to meet after the Pope’s funeralsaid one of the sources.

But then the leaders fell on each other at their arrival And then they found a point to meet on their own at St. Peter’s Basilica.

After the meeting, the Ukrainian leader felt that for the first time he managed to Changed the way of thinking of Trump, against Putin, the same sources say.

Then on Air Force One, on his return to the US, Trump threatened Putin for the mass air attack that Moscow had launched in Kiev.

“It makes me think that it may not want to stop the war. Does he ‘play’ and do we have to deal with it differently, “banking” or “secondary sanctions”? Excessively many people die ‘, wrote on Truth Social.