US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held crunch war talks in the heart of the Vatican minutes before the start of the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, as the White House mounts an increasingly urgent push to strike a peace deal in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump took aim at Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday in a Truth Social post about the ongoing war in Ukraine, saying that the Kremlin leader may need to "be dealt with differently.