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Zelensky Talks Peace with Pope Ahead of Ukraine Recovery Conference

ROME, ITALY, JUL 9 – Zelensky met Pope Leo XIV to discuss peace efforts and Ukraine’s reconstruction with support from 2,000 companies and 40 international organizations, amid ongoing Russian attacks.

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met Pope Leo XIV on July 9 at the pope’s summer residence in Castel Gandolfo to discuss peace efforts and reconstruction support.
  • The meeting took place shortly after Russia launched its most intense missile and drone assault in over three years and ahead of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome, which focuses on attracting private sector funding.
  • Both leaders discussed the urgent need for a just and lasting peace and considered the Vatican as a potential venue for peace talks, although Moscow has not agreed to this proposal.
  • Zelensky expressed gratitude to the Vatican for its efforts to recover thousands of Ukrainian children taken to Russia and emphasized the desire for peace, relying on the Vatican and the Pope to assist in hosting a high-level meeting aimed at ending the conflict.
  • Pope Leo XIV appointed Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi as envoy to facilitate the children’s return and identify paths to peace, reaffirming willingness to host representatives of Russia and Ukraine for negotiations.
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From a climate and war point of view, the world today is on fire. The Pope warned of it this Wednesday from Castel Gandolfo, the well-known summer residence of...

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It is almost impossible for two countries with a very large Orthodox majority to find themselves in the heart of the Catholic Church, that is, in the Vatican, in order to negotiate peace. Leo XIV knows this very well, as Pope Francis knew, and the Secretariat of State has always known. Yet, in the second private audience in just two months of pontificate, this time in the frame of Villa Barberini at Castel Gandolfo, where the Pontiff is spending…

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Zelensky was received by the Pope in his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, where Leão XIV is spending a few days of rest and asked him for a "high-level" meeting to end the war.

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On a visit to the Italian capital, the Ukrainian President met Leon XIV, who reaffirmed "the importance of dialogue as a privileged means of ending hostilities", reports the Vatican in a statement.

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Ukrainian President Selenskyi travelled to Italy for a conference on the reconstruction of his homeland. Pope Leo XIV offered peace talks between Moscow and Kyyiv in the Vatican at a meeting with him.

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La Repubblica broke the news in Turin, Italy on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
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