Kremlin: Putin will respond if Ukrainian President Zelensky calls him, and he has never refused to hold talks.

The Kremlin stated that President Vladimir Putin would respond if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called him, and asserted that Putin has never refused to hold talks. The headline signals a possible diplomatic opening in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but it contains no concrete proposal, timetable, or agreed format, so its market relevance rests on expectations rather than commitments. The main transmission channel is risk premium: any perceived reduction in geopolitical escalation can compress the safe-haven bid for gold, the Swiss franc, and Treasuries, while lifting sentiment-sensitive assets such as European equities, the hryvnia, and Eastern European sovereign bonds. Russian assets, including the ruble and Moscow-listed equities, remain most sensitive to sanctions expectations, so talk-of-talks headlines historically produce short-lived moves that fade absent verifiable progress. Traders should watch for an official confirmation of any Zelensky-Putin call or a Kremlin readout of a formal negotiating channel, alongside any shift in EU or US sanctions rhetoric.

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