Lavrov Says Russia Ready to Seek Reasonable Compromises on Ukraine

Lavrov's framing pairs a stated openness to compromise with a non-negotiable security condition, which reads less as a shift than as a restatement of Russia's existing position. For markets, the signal is that the diplomatic track remains active in rhetoric even where the substance is unchanged, and that any durable de-escalation would hinge on the NATO presence question rather than on the language of compromise itself. Whether such remarks translate into concrete talks is the open question.