According to @CNBC, Vladimir Putin said Moscow is ready for serious talks on a Ukraine peace plan, breaking his silence on the proposal and signaling openness to negotiations, as reported by CNBC. For trading, geopolitical de-escalation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict has historically compressed risk premia in crude and European natural gas, making Brent, WTI and Dutch TTF benchmarks pivotal intraday monitors for direction and volatility, source: International Energy Agency Oil Market Report; ACER European Gas Market Monitoring. Crypto has exhibited strong positive co-movement with equities since 2020, meaning shifts in global risk sentiment around war headlines can transmit to BTC and ETH via the risk-on/risk-off channel, source: International Monetary Fund Global Financial Stability Note 2022; Bank for International Settlements research 2022.