Russia's Kremlin says the exact timing of a call between Russian President Putin and US President Trump will be agreed, adding that the call may take place, TASS reports

Kremlin readouts flagging a possible Putin-Trump call, with timing still to be agreed, follow a familiar pattern in this relationship: the Russian side has historically been the more eager signaller of leader-level contact, while confirmation from Washington has often lagged or arrived with different framing. The phrasing, that a call 'may take place', is softer than a scheduled readout, and past episodes of this kind have sometimes produced a call within days and sometimes faded without one. The transmission channel when such calls do materialise has run through the Ukraine negotiation track: easing expectations have tended to pressure European gas and crude via sanction and supply-risk assumptions, lift Russian-exposed assets and the rouble where accessible, and weigh modestly on defence names and European safe-haven premium, with the magnitude tied to whether the call produces substance or optics. The tells worth noting are whether the White House confirms independently, whether the readout references a ceasefire framework or merely an exchange of views, and any parallel movement in sanctions rhetoric. As a conditional Kremlin statement relayed through state media, this is signalling rather than an event.