US Vice President JD Vance met with Italy`s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Friday, ahead of celebrating Easter at the Vatican and a meeting with the pope`s right-hand man, writes France24.

Meloni shares conservative views with Vance and President Donald Trump, whom she met in Washington just a day before on a charm offensive aiming for a US-EU tariffs deal.

Along with an update on trade negotiations with European Union, Vance said he would discuss with Meloni the negotiations involving Ukraine and Russia, saying "we have some interesting things to report on, of course in private".

"I won`t prejudge them, but we do feel optimistic that we can hopefully bring this war, this very brutal war, to a close", - he said.