Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said he is ready to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Turkey, expressing hope that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could help arrange a leaders' summit. He also suggested that Erdogan's relationships with Donald Trump and Putin could help advance peace negotiations. The market transmission runs primarily through geopolitical risk premia and risk appetite: any credible progress toward a ceasefire or negotiated settlement tends to compress the risk premium priced into European energy, Eastern European sovereign debt, and the Russian rouble, while easing pressure on commodity-linked currencies and Black Sea grain and fertilizer flows. Russian energy exporters, European gas benchmarks such as the Dutch TTF, and defense equities are the most directly exposed, with Turkish lira assets sensitive to any diplomatic prestige and reduced regional tension. Traders should watch whether Turkey confirms a host arrangement and whether Kremlin and White House officials publicly corroborate the proposal, as an unconfirmed summit announcement is likely to produce only
ZELENSKIY SAYS HE IS READY TO MEET PUTIN IN TURKEY, EXPRESSING HOPE THAT PRESIDENT ERDOGAN COULD HELP ARRANGE A LEADERS’ SUMMIT, AND THAT ERDOGAN’S RELATIONSHIPS WITH TRUMP AND PUTIN COULD HELP ADVANCE PEACE TALKS, SAYING “IF TURKEY CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN, WE WOULD ACCEPT IT AND WOULD ONLY BE HAPPY ABOUT IT”
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