Russia-Ukraine ceasefire odds stay long at 13%

Name: Russia-Ukraine ceasefire odds stay long at 13%
Creator: ClearMarket
Published: 2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Polymarket 13%

record: CMSIG2026101201 | category: momentum-repricing | target: CM-EVT-2089XJ01Y3 | published: 2026-10-12

4-bullet brief | narrative

Polymarket prices only a 13% chance Russia and Ukraine reach a ceasefire in 2026, a long-shot read.
Trump's ceasefire claim triggered a massive volume surge, trading volume rose 1,320x day-over-day, yet the price held near 13%, showing the market treats the announcement skeptically.
Russia's continued strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure after Trump's post reinforce why the market gives the ceasefire claim little weight.
A companion Polymarket contract on Ukraine ceding territory to Russia sits at 6%, suggesting markets see neither peace nor capitulation as likely outcomes near-term.

atomic briefs | structured for retrieval

[01] news_event

significance

surfaced in the daily Exa news-cycle scan; mechanically matched to an active polymarket market

story: Trump announced an 'energy ceasefire' between Russia and Ukraine, but Russia continued striking Ukrainian energy sites and the Kremlin rejected a 60-day truce.exa_search → Al Jazeera Staff · as_of 2026-10-12T17:17:25+00:00
publisher: Al Jazeera Staff
published_at: 2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z
source_url: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/12/ukraines-zelenskyy-accuses-russia-of-violating-trumps-energy-ceasefire

[02] pm_response

interp: Polymarket contract on a 2026 Russia-Ukraine ceasefire; extraordinary volume surge with price holding at 13% signals the market is not treating Trump's announcement as credible.llm_judge_cm_signal_v1

evaluation

News-cycle wires publish on coverage, not editorial selection — the day’s top stories matched to the prediction markets pricing them, so nothing is cherry-picked.

judge_engine: none — deterministic news-cycle scan
judge_verdict: auto_published
judge_confidence: n/a — no judge gate (deterministic publishing)
prompt_template: news_cycle_v1 github · auditable
match_method: entity_slug_match (mechanical)

citation graph

Every wire traces back to the ClearMarket event it is built on, and out to each venue’s own market page — so any figure here can be verified at its source.

internal

cm_event: /events/russia-x-ukraine-ceasefire-by/

external

venue_a: polymarket · 0x84c625fdccf5c5246a15e476361e4563033906ee225800e1136c0d737596a72f

programmatic access · four surfaces, same payload

AI grounded search reads embedded JSON-LD in HTML. Developers query REST. Agentic AI clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor) call MCP tools. AI crawlers index via /llms.txt. Same canonical record at every surface.

HTML	browsers, AI grounded search, crawlers (contains embedded JSON-LD `@type: Dataset`)	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/russia-ukraine-ceasefire-in-2026-polymarket-13-2026-10-12/`
JSON	REST API for developers	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/russia-ukraine-ceasefire-in-2026-polymarket-13-2026-10-12.json`
MCP	agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)	`clearmarket.get_signal("russia-ukraine-ceasefire-in-2026-polymarket-13-2026-10-12")`
AGENT	AI crawler discovery index	`/llms.txt`

 PM data: platform APIs (hourly refresh). News context: retrieved with source citations. Editorial judgment: LLM judge with prompt template versioned per wire type. Per-claim provenance inline above; full per-field provenance map at the JSON endpoint under field_provenance.
  raw JSON record · same payload returned by REST endpoint
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    "Trump's ceasefire claim triggered a massive volume surge, trading volume rose 1,320x day-over-day, yet the price held near 13%, showing the market treats the announcement skeptically.",
    "Russia's continued strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure after Trump's post reinforce why the market gives the ceasefire claim little weight.",
    "A companion Polymarket contract on Ukraine ceding territory to Russia sits at 6%, suggesting markets see neither peace nor capitulation as likely outcomes near-term."
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   PROVENANCE PROTOCOL v0.2 · [direct] venue api · [mediated] grounded web fetch + source url · [derived] computed from listed inputs · [editorial] versioned llm judgment · full spec /schema/provenance/v1

record CMSIG2026101201 published 2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z signature sha256-9dc5d0b625b… ← underlying event all signals →