ZELENSKIY SAYS THAT SOMETIMES THE U.S. USES SOFT RHETORIC TOWARD RUSSIA, SUCH AS “RUSSIA SHOULD NOT HELP IRAN,” BUT THAT RUSSIA AND IRAN ARE ALREADY ALLIES

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that the United States sometimes adopts soft rhetoric toward Russia, citing the phrase "Russia should not help Iran," while asserting that Russia and Iran are already allies. The comments frame Washington's messaging toward Moscow as inconsistent, a characterization that feeds into expectations around the scope and enforcement of Western sanctions on Russia and Iran. The transmission channel runs through geopolitical risk premia and sanctions-exposure pricing: perceived softness in U.S. messaging can lift expectations of evasion networks and secondary-sanctions gaps, affecting Russian and Iranian sovereign spreads, ruble and rial liquidity, and energy-linked flows, while also weighing on sentiment in oil-sensitive markets. Russian and Iranian assets would be the most directly exposed, along with oil benchmarks and emerging-market currencies sensitive to Middle East and Eurasian risk. Traders should watch for any formal U.S. Treasury OFAC designations or State Department statements on Russia-Iran military or energy cooperation, which would indicate whether

HIGH-impact news is typically a market-moving event with multi-pip or multi-percent intraday reactions. Examples include central bank rate decisions, major CPI/NFP releases, geopolitical shocks, mega-cap earnings beats/misses, and regulatory announcements. Traders typically position-reduce or hedge ahead of scheduled HIGH-impact events, and follow the wire in real time to react to unscheduled ones (war headlines, central-bank emergency statements, surprise corporate actions). The Trading News Terminal squawk box reads every HIGH-impact headline aloud the moment it hits the wire — so active traders don't have to stare at the feed.

Active traders typically follow a three-step workflow when a market-moving headline hits the wire: (1) read the headline on the terminal or hear it on the squawk box; (2) assess whether the news is already priced in (by checking intraday price action in the seconds before) or whether it's genuinely new information; (3) act — either entering a breakout position, fading an overreaction, or tightening stops on existing trades. Trading News Terminal's Pro plan delivers wire-grade headlines within seconds of the source, with automatic audio squawk on every HIGH-impact event, so the read-assess-act cycle never waits on a refresh button.