Trump-Putin talks are already a ‘triumph’ for Moscow, its economy and markets
File Photo: US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the family photo session at the Apec Summit in Vietnam on 11 November 2017.
Jorge Silva | Reuters
The negotiations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Donald Trump are still days away, but the two leaders’ meeting to end the war in Ukraine is already seen as a victory for the Kremlin, Russian economy and global financial markets.
Discussions will take place on Friday in Alaska.
“This is a big gain for Putin to meet with the US President for the first time since 2007 for Putin for the first time since 2007.
There are concerns that Ukraine may be forced to quit the Russian occupied region to Moscow, and the mood is Dour in Kiev, which is not invited to participate in the negotiations, including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Kiev said that no agreement will be shot in the absence of any agreement and that European leaders strongly pushed Ukraine’s participation. The United States said that he was thinking of inviting Zelenskyy on his behalf. NBC News reported.
Meanwhile, economists say that the negotiations that took place because Russia earns a profit on the South and Eastern Ukraine on the battlefield in the South and Eastern Ukraine is a gain for the war-centered economy, which is apparently without a cease-fire agreement-in-the-art Putin and international sanctions and stubborn high inflation. 9.4% in June.
“[Putin] It starts from a relatively strong position on the battlefield. On the other hand, economically starts from a weak position. The Russian economy is not very good. Since oil revenues are partly reduced, oil and gas are conducting an important financial deficit. [are down] Because of the oil price. And … This is a weak economy,
Russia, which has a strong position on the battlefield, will ask for the relief of sanctions as a part of Ukrainian regional concessions as well as any ceasefire agreement.
The Kremlin began to get closer to Washington as an opportunity for investment, not only for economic recovery. On Saturday, Russian Deputy Presidency Yuri Ushakov said that “the economic interests of our countries intersect in the Alaska and the North Pole and expectations for the implementation of large -scale and mutual useful projects”. Kremlin stated.
Portes, Trump’s “Sanctions properly, if it was patience and willingness, then if waiting [to hold talks] It causes a very important change in the balance of power. “
But as things stopped, Trump Mulled, but so far was based on increasing sanctions on Russia. Instead, Washington threatened the trade partners of the Kremlin, such as India, with additional trade tariffs to continue with “secondary sanctions” and Russian oil purchases that finance Moscow’s war machine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is joining the BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, through Videolink of Moscow, Russia, on July 6, 2025.
Mikhail Metzel | Through Reuters
Trump asked if he would proceed with more punishing sanctions to push Putin to a peace agreement, Portes asked: “Can anyone predict what the US president will do from one day to another?”
“The possibility of an increase in sanction pressure is important, but … Considering Trump’s desire for the Nobel Prize, Trump’s probability of increasing sanctions at this stage does not seem too high, but he can change his mind tomorrow.”
Winning for Defense Stocks’
The global financial markets reacted positively to the announcement that the negotiations would be comfortable to end the war on Friday. Europe and we rising Bounses. However, since the merchants could deterrence more investment by NATO allies, the defense stocks in Europe fell into news.
The spot price of gold, which is seen as a safe shelter in geopolitical and financial market stress times, is 8.A. Monday London time.
Germany’s Rheinmetall shares were almost low, while HENSOLDT decreased by 1.5% and decreased by 3.3% in early procedures. Leonardo from Italy and France’s Thales fell 1.9% and 1.7%, respectively. In the meantime, the UAE Systems and Babcock listed in London, early in the day, 1.1% and 1.3%, respectively, up to 1.1% and 1.3% in London time, respectively.
However, TS Lombard General Manager Christopher Granville said that negotiations may ultimately be “win-win for European defense stocks” and that investors can advise them to “benefit from this weakness”.
Granville said that if the peace process fails, it will still be needed to renew the US and Europe’s extinct weapons inventories, which will be very good for orders and supply for orders and supply for all other European defense stocks.
“Or if there is a peace agreement, what do we see? We see a very powerful Russian army – ‘victory’ and ‘defeat’ will be banded around the words and probably not used – to some extent reign. This reality will force the supply of defense by European governments and at the same time good for European defense stocks.
“The market, of course, it downloads it from time to time and [defense stock] The names are withdrawn a little, I think you should buy this weakness. “
