Kremlin says Russian President Putin talks wit US envoys were useful and it was agreed Russia and US would be in touch on the matter

• Hopes Europe will support idea of agreeing a new security architecture for Europe.
• Russia made clear NATO cannot expand any further.
• Putin and US envoys agreed that Ukraine peace talks will continue.
• Attaches great importance to the upcoming three-way meeting in China between Russian President Putin, US President Trump and Chinese President Xi.

Kremlin readouts of this kind follow a familiar pattern in Russia-US negotiation cycles: both sides describe contacts as useful and agree to continue talking, language that sustains the process while committing neither side to substance. The historical tell has been whether such readouts carry concrete deliverables, dates, formats, named working groups, or remain at the level of process; this one sits firmly in the process camp. The substantive content here is largely a restatement of known Russian positions, the NATO expansion red line and the European security architecture framing, which Moscow has repeated across prior rounds of contact and which reads as positioning rather than movement. The market-relevant distinction in episodes of this kind has been between talks that stay bilateral-optics driven and those that produce trackable follow-ons: an agreed next meeting, a formal proposal, or a ceasefire framework. The flagged three-way meeting involving the US and Chinese leaders is the calendar item worth noting, since multilateral settings have on previous occasions been where ceasefire or framework language first surfaces. Until then, asset reaction in comparable stretches has tended to fade as the gap between diplomatic tone and negotiated substance becomes clear.