US Special Envoy Witkoff says we hope that, following the negotiations with Russian President Putin, it will be possible to announce a new round of trilateral talks in which Europeans would take part, RIA reports

US Special Envoy Witkoff says we hope that, following the negotiations with Russian President Putin, it will be possible to announce a new round of trilateral talks in which Europeans would take part, RIA reports.

Headlines of this kind are procedural rather than substantive: an expressed hope of further talks, relayed through Russian state media, sits at the soft end of the negotiating signal spectrum. In comparable negotiation sequences the market has learned to discount optimism from envoys heavily until it is confirmed by the principals themselves, and second-hand attribution via RIA adds a further layer of caution, since Moscow has historically used selective readouts to shape the narrative around its own terms. The established pattern in ceasefire-adjacent episodes is a bid for European gas, EUR strength against the dollar, a fade in the oil risk premium and softness in gold, with reversals equally fast when talks stall, which is why the desk-level distinction is between process news (cheap, frequent, mean-reverting) and terms news (rare, durable, repricing). What carries weight is whether a trilateral format with European participation actually convenes, since European inclusion has been a point of contention in prior rounds and signals a wider table than bilateral US-Russia tracks. The tells are scheduling confirmation, the agenda, and any movement on the underlying sticking points rather than the fact of talks themselves. As stated, this is headline flow, not a structural de-escalation signal.