{"id":998,"date":"2025-04-26T18:25:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/?p=998"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:26:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:26:33","slug":"zelensky-touts-good-meeting-with-trump-amid-peace-talks-hoping-for-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/zelensky-touts-good-meeting-with-trump-amid-peace-talks-hoping-for-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky touts ‘good meeting’ with Trump amid peace talks: ‘Hoping for results’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday said his brief meeting<\/a> with President Trump in Vatican City was “good” and “symbolic,” as the U.S. continues to facilitate peace talks<\/a> between Moscow and Kyiv.<\/p>\n

“Good meeting. We discussed a lot one on one,” Zelensky wrote<\/a> on social platform X, just hours after the two met ahead of Pope Francis’s funeral<\/a>. “Hoping for results on everything we covered.”<\/p>\n

“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,” he added, sharing a photo of the two. “Thank you @POTUS.”<\/p>\n

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, without providing more detail, also touted the exchange<\/a> as “productive.”<\/p>\n

The meeting marked the first one-on-one interaction between the two world leaders following a contentious meeting<\/a> in the White House<\/a> earlier this year. Trump has also railed<\/a> against Zelensky in recent days, accusing him of waffling on a looming mineral deal<\/a>, criticizing the Ukrainian leader for refusing to accept<\/a> Crimea as Russian territory and blaming the war<\/a> partially on Ukraine’s push to join the NATO security alliance.<\/p>\n

In the wake of his harsh criticisms, Russia launched deadly drone strikes<\/a> on Kyiv earlier this week \u2014 a move that left Trump questioning Putin’s endgame. He blasted<\/a> the Russian president in a Thursday post on his Truth Social platform<\/a>, calling the strikes “not necessary” and “very bad timing.”<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the president upped the ante, acknowledging<\/a> that the Russian leader could be “tapping him along.” The sentiment is a turn<\/a> from what he said nearly a week earlier.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days,\u201d Trump\u00a0posted online<\/a>, while en route back to the U.S. from Rome.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cIt makes me think that maybe he doesn\u2019t want to stop the war, he\u2019s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through \u2018Banking\u2019 or \u2018Secondary Sanctions?\u2019 Too many people are dying!!!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday said his brief meeting with President Trump in Vatican City was “good” and “symbolic,” as the U.S. continues to facilitate peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv. “Good meeting. We discussed a lot one on one,” Zelensky wrote on social platform X, just hours after the two met ahead of Pope Francis’s funeral. “Hoping for results on everything we covered.” “Protecting lives of our people.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}