Pope Leo XIV welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a private audience at the Vatican on Wednesday, offering to host both Ukrainian and Russian diplomats to negotiate an end to Moscow’s prolonged invasion of the country.

Zelensky celebrated the occasion as a “great honor,” thanking the pope for “the assistance, solidarity, and all efforts that bring us closer to a just peace.” He indicated that his government remained open to the possibility of the Vatican mediating talks with Russia to end the invasion, but expressed little optimism that the Russian government under strongman Vladimir Putin would accept the terms of such an…

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