The Italian executive has given no confirmation of the reports so far.
Zelensky recently visited Helsinki in Finland and The Hague in the Netherlands, and German media have reported that he will be in Berlin in the next few days to meet Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Vatican sources said on Thursday that “it is possible that the pope will meet the Ukrainian president on Saturday”, when asked about the reports of a Zelensky visit to Rome.
Since the invasion, the Pope has pleaded for peace practically on a weekly basis, and has repeatedly expressed a wish to act as a broker between Kyiv and Moscow. His offer has so far failed to produce any breakthrough.
Ukraine Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal met the Pope last month and said he had discussed a “peace formula” put forward by Zelenskiy. He said he had also invited the pontiff to visit Kyiv.
Pope Francis, 86, who had an audience with Zelensky in February 2020, before the Russian invasion, has said previously that he wants to visit both Kyiv and Moscow on a peace mission.
Tens of thousands have been killed, millions uprooted and whole cities have been flattened during the war in Ukraine.
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