US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held crunch war talks in the heart of the Vatican minutes before the start of the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, as the White House mounts an increasingly urgent push to strike a peace deal in Ukraine.

President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, both in Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral, held a “productive” meeting early Saturday as the U.S. looks to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky were pictured in the grand surroundings of the Vatican complex this morning leaning towards one another during a "productive" face-to-face meeting