{"id":77800,"date":"2025-04-26T14:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T14:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/ukrainian-president-zelensky-and-us-president-trump-meet-inside-st-peters-basilica-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T14:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T14:46:28","slug":"ukrainian-president-zelensky-and-us-president-trump-meet-inside-st-peters-basilica-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/ukrainian-president-zelensky-and-us-president-trump-meet-inside-st-peters-basilica-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian President Zelensky and US President Trump meet inside St Peter&#8217;s Basilica | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump have met inside St Peter&#8217;s Basilica ahead of Pope Francis&#8217; funeral.<\/p>\n<p>The <!--more--> White House described the 15-minute meeting as &#8220;very productive&#8221; and Zelensky later called it &#8220;very symbolic&#8221; with the &#8220;potential to become historic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Zelensky were pictured sitting locked in deep discussion, minutes before Pope Francis&#8217; funeral was due to start.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting came a day after Trump said Russia and Ukraine were &#8220;very close to a deal&#8221;, following talks between his envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump have met inside St Peter&#8217;s Basilica ahead of Pope Francis&#8217; funeral. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}