{"id":1414275,"date":"2026-07-24T10:44:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1414275"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:44:36","slug":"zelenskyy-claims-turning-point-in-relations-with-trump-came-last-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/zelenskyy-claims-turning-point-in-relations-with-trump-came-last-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy Claims Turning Point in Relations with Trump Came Last April"},"content":{"rendered":" <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the real turning point in his relationship with US President Donald Trump came during a brief personal meeting at the Vatican, held at St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica in Rome in April 2025 during the funeral of Pope Francis.<\/p>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He discussed this in an excerpt from an interview with Laura Loomer, a blogger close to Trump, shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LauraLoomer\/status\/2080417421458911304\">X<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/\">UATV English.<\/a><\/p>\n    <blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The tone has changed absolutely. We had our first changing moment in Rome, in the Vatican. Yes, it was not a long meeting, but I always said it was, I think, a historic moment. We changed our relations during 15-20 minutes. So nobody was around us. There were only two of us, and I was very happy to hear the president,&#8221; Zelenskyy said, describing it as a good bilateral conversation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;And I&#8217;m so happy because a lot in life depends on such relations,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Trump reposted this portion of the interview on his Truth Social page. Loomer has said she plans to publish the full interview with the Ukrainian president shortly.<\/p>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As previously reported, the February 28, 2025 meeting between the two presidents at the White House was cut short following disputes over the facts of the war in Ukraine and questions of trust in Putin&#8217;s word and past agreements. In April 2025, Zelenskyy, First Lady Olena Zelenska, and the Ukrainian delegation traveled to Rome to attend Pope Francis&#8217;s funeral, where Zelenskyy subsequently met with Trump.<\/p>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/rubio-says-russia-is-losing-up-to-6-000-troops-a-week-in-ukraine\/\">Rubio Says Russia Is Losing Up to 6,000 Troops a Week in Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the real turning point in his relationship &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1299605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,36415,54,55,50],"tags":[76,78,72926],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1414275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en","category-usa-en","category-ukraine-en","category-svit-en","tag-glavnoe-en","tag-homepage-en","tag-ukraine-s-allies-aid"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zelenskyy Claims Turning Point in Relations with Trump Came Last April - Freedom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/zelenskyy-claims-turning-point-in-relations-with-trump-came-last-april\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zelenskyy Claims Turning Point in Relations with Trump Came Last April - Freedom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the real turning point in his relationship ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/zelenskyy-claims-turning-point-in-relations-with-trump-came-last-april\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Freedom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-07-24T07:44:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-07-24T07:44:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/zelenskyy_trump_1300x750-820x473.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"820\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"473\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Danylo Shportilo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Danylo Shportilo\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uatv.ua\\\/en\\\/zelenskyy-claims-turning-point-in-relations-with-trump-came-last-april\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uatv.ua\\\/en\\\/zelenskyy-claims-turning-point-in-relations-with-trump-came-last-april\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Danylo Shportilo\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uatv.ua\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f4fe8d6d08deebcdee69f6671576d2d2\"},\"headline\":\"Zelenskyy Claims Turning Point in Relations with Trump Came Last April\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-24T07:44:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-07-24T07:44:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uatv.ua\\\/en\\\/zelenskyy-claims-turning-point-in-relations-with-trump-came-last-april\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":265,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uatv.ua\\\/en\\\/zelenskyy-claims-turning-point-in-relations-with-trump-came-last-april\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uatv.ua\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/02\\\/zelenskyy_trump_1300x750.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"\u0413\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0435\",\"\u041d\u0430 \u0433\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043d\u0443\u044e (\u0441\u043b\u0430\u0439\u0434\u0435\u0440)\",\"Ukraine\u2019s Allies &amp; 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