President Donald Trump stated that once a deal is reached between Russia and Ukraine, the United States will be able to conduct business with both countries. The headline frames a potential peace settlement as the precondition for resuming commercial engagement, implying that sanctions and trade restrictions on Russia could become negotiable rather than fixed. The transmission channel runs through geopolitical risk premia and sanctions expectations, which would feed into energy prices, European natural gas and oil benchmarks, and defense-sector equities, while Ukrainian sovereign debt and the hryvnia would be sensitive to any reconstruction and reconstruction-financing implications. Russian assets, including ruble-denominated instruments and Russian equities traded through restricted channels, would be most directly exposed to a shift in sanctions posture, though the statement contains no specific terms, timeline, or commitments. Traders should watch for formal negotiation milestones, any executive or Treasury action on sanctions relief, and movements in Brent crude and European TTF gas futures for early confirmation of whether the market is pricing a durable settlement.
Trump: Once we've got a deal with Russia and Ukraine we will be able to do business with both
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