TREE NEWS update: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the war in Ukraine will continue and is trending toward escalation, speaking to African media editors. He said Finland’s president and Norway’s prime minister offered nothing new on Ukraine in calls with President Vladimir Putin, and that European countries are seeking a role in talks while the Trump administration remains open to dialogue with Russia. Lavrov said the diesel supply agreement with the United States is a commercial transaction unrelated to political concessions.
Lavrov Says Ukraine War Will Escalate, Calls US Diesel Deal Purely Commercial
AI take
Lavrov's framing separates commercial energy flows from political bargaining, which matters for how Russian export relationships are read amid an active war. The signal that European capitals want a seat at talks while Washington keeps a dialogue channel open points to competing diplomatic tracks rather than a single negotiating table. For commodity and RWA markets, the takeaway is that diesel trade can continue even as rhetoric hardens — whether that separation holds is the open question.
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