White House says meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy before funeral of Pope Francis was ‘very productive’. What we know on day 1,158See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageDonald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy met for a “very productive” meeting in Rome before the funeral of Pope Francis, the White House has said, a day after the US president said Russia and Ukraine were “very close to a deal” on ending the war. Ukraine confirmed the meeting and said the pair would talk again later on Saturday.Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow on Friday to discuss Washington’s peace plan. The US president said after the three-hour meeting that it was a good day of talks and called for a high-level meeting between Kyiv and Moscow to close the deal. “Most of the major points are agreed to,” Trump said in the post on his Truth Social platform, without giving any details.Trump made his comments despite the Ukrainian president’s repeated rejections of a proposal that Kyiv cede Crimea to Russia. Trump said in an interview with Time published on Friday that Crimea – which Russia annexed in 2014 – “will stay with Russia”. Washington has not revealed details of its peace plan but has suggested