Norwegian PM says US and Ukraine talks were constructive

• Have agreed working together is crucial, need to make real efforts to move diplomatic process in right direction.

Statements of this kind sit at the lowest information end of the Ukraine diplomacy tape: a third-party head of government characterising talks as constructive, with no communiqué, no framework and no named next round. In previous episodes of this process, the market-moving beats have been the documented ones, draft texts, agreed formats, ceasefire sequencing or sanctions-linked deliverables, while tone-only readouts from intermediaries have faded within the session. Norway's role here is that of a sympathetic facilitator rather than a principal, so the comment reads as alignment signalling, not evidence of movement between Washington and Kyiv themselves. Where Scandinavian diplomacy has historically mattered is in backchannel and hosting capacity rather than in public messaging, which makes private follow-through more telling than the press line. The tells are whether the US or Ukrainian sides attach any substance to the same meetings, and whether any joint document or dated next step emerges. Absent that, the established pattern is negligible spill into crude, European gas or defence names from this tier of headline.