In this photo provisions of the presidential press office of Ukraine, the president of Ukraine, Volodyymyr Zenskyy, the right, and President Donald Trump speak while they attend the funeral of Pope Francis in the Vatican, on Saturday 26 of 2025.

Ukrainian presidential press office through AP

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, raised on Saturday the possibility of stronger sanctions against Moscow and questioned whether the Russian president of Wheter, Vladimir Putin, wants to “stop war” against Ukraine.

The publication of Trump’s social networks about Putin occurred just after he and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in Rome for his first session in person as an oval situation that became a game of shouts. They with just before the funeral of Pope Francis.

“There was no reason for Putin to shoot missiles in civil areas, cities and towns, in recent days,” Trump wrote in Truth Social. Vice President JD Vance published Trump’s statement in his X account.

“It makes me think that maybe I don’t want to stop war, it’s just hitting me and has to be differently, through” or “secondary sanctions?” Too many people are dying! “Trump said.

The White House said Trump and Zenskyy “had a very productive discussion”, but did not include additional details about what was discussed.

Zensky said it was a “good meeting”, adding: “Very symbolic meeting that has the potential to become historic, if we achieve joint results.”

Trump’s comments occur as the pressure increases so that the two countries reach a peace agreement. Earlier this week, Trump presented to the two countries a survey to end the war. According to the reports, the agreement included, in part, the recognition of Crimea under Russian control, which Zenskyy has repeatedly said the line.

In his social post on Saturday, Trump said Russia stole Crimea from Ukraine, a rare recognition of the president of the United States that Russia illegally annexed the region.

Trump taught the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, and suggested that “it made it possible for Russia to rob Crimea to Ukraine without a shot was fire.”

Trump told Time earlier this month that “Crimea will stay with Russia,” and added: “Zenskyy understands it, and everyone understands that the bone is a long time. It is a bone long before Trump appears.”

After his comments, Zenskyy reiterated that Crimea belongs to Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Trump said Friday that Russia and Ukraine are “very close to an agreement, and the two parties should now meet, at very high levels, to” finish it. “”

He wrote in Truth Social that “most of the main points are agreed.”

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