ROME, Italy — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met Pope Francis Saturday during a trip to Rome, as Berlin unveiled a huge new weapons package ahead of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive. Zelensky spent 40 minutes with the 86-year-old pontiff at the Vatican, after earlier meeting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has strongly backed Kyiv in the wake of Russia's February 2022 invasion. 'I am very grateful to him for his personal attention to the tragedy of millions of Ukrainians,' Zelensky said on Telegram after his audience with the pope, the first since February 2020.

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