Donald Trump has questioned Vladimir Putin’s willingness to end the Ukraine war after meeting Volodymyr Zelensky during Pope Francis’s funeral in Rome.

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 Donald Trump says his meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the Vatican on Saturday went well and said the next few days will prove if there was progress in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. (Reporting By Steve Holland and Jarrett Renshaw;

The Russian government has announced a ceasefire in Ukraine to mark the 80th anniversary of Russian Victory Day on May 9, amid U.S. President Donald Trump putting mounting pressure on Moscow to end the war.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a three-day ceasefire in May in the war with Ukraine to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies in World War Two.