A Ukrainian official said the Ukrainian government was surprised by Trump's announcement, Axios reports

Headlines of this form, an unnamed official quoted expressing surprise at a US administration announcement, recur whenever Washington moves on Ukraine-related policy without prior coordination with Kyiv. The informational value is in the pattern of engagement: episodes where allies learn of decisions via press reports rather than through channels have historically signalled a looser consultative process, which raises the volatility of subsequent follow-on headlines and complicates directional positioning on any single one. What is asserted here is limited: an official reaction to an unnamed announcement, with no detail on the substance of that announcement or the forum in which the official spoke. The tags span FX, equities, and energy, which is typical of the broad risk routing that Ukraine-related US policy headlines generate, but the channel matters more than the routing: crude and European gas tend upon the supply and sanctions angle, EUR and European equities upon the security and reconstruction angle, and USD upon the safe-haven angle, each behaving differently depending on the underlying announcement. Precedent in this cycle has been that initial headline-driven moves on Russia-Ukraine policy news retrace once substance is clarified, and either conditions or reverses depending on that clarification. The follow-ons worth watching are the substance of the announcement itself, whether Kyiv's public response formalises or softens, and any coordinated or divergent European reaction.