Trump Says US Working With Russia to End War, Claims Putin and Zelensky Both Want Peace

The claim of joint US-Russia work on ending the war matters less for its diplomatic substance than for the signal it sends about the direction of Washington's posture, since no mechanism, mediator or timeline was offered to make it concrete. For markets, the relevant question is whether this shifts expectations around sanctions, energy flows and reconstruction-linked assets, but nothing here yet changes the underlying conflict dynamics. Whether any of this translates into an actual negotiating track, rather than a rhetorical position, is the open question.