Russia-Ukraine ceasefire in 2026 remains a long shot at 14 percent
- The Polymarket prediction market prices a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire in 2026 at 14%, a clear long-shot despite active diplomacy.
- Zelensky's push for an energy truce in talks with Trump shows diplomatic momentum, but Polymarket at 14% signals the market does not expect a formal ceasefire to materialize this year.
- The companion Polymarket contract on Trump, Putin, and Zelensky being seen together before 2027 sits at only 8%, suggesting the market doubts even a summit, let alone a peace deal.
- Resolves via Polymarket's uma_oracle upon confirmation of a formally agreed ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
- story
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in New York for a high-stakes meeting with Trump at the UN, pushing for an energy infrastructure truce with Russia.exa_search → Tom Balmforth · as_of 2026-09-22T07:47:31+00:00 [mediated]
- publisher
- Tom Balmforth
- published_at
- 2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z
- interp
- Polymarket at 14% reflects a market that sees Zelensky's UN push as insufficient to bridge the gap to a full ceasefire within 2026.llm_judge_cm_signal_v1 [editorial]
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_v1github · auditable- match_method
entity_slug_match (mechanical)
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.
- venue_a
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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-14-2026-09-22/ |
| JSON | REST API for developers | https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/russia-ukraine-ceasefire-in-2026-polymarket-14-2026-09-22.json |
| MCP | agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue) | clearmarket.get_signal("russia-ukraine-ceasefire-in-2026-polymarket-14-2026-09-22") |
| 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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"The Polymarket prediction market prices a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire in 2026 at 14%, a clear long-shot despite active diplomacy.",
"Zelensky's push for an energy truce in talks with Trump shows diplomatic momentum, but Polymarket at 14% signals the market does not expect a formal ceasefire to materialize this year.",
"The companion Polymarket contract on Trump, Putin, and Zelensky being seen together before 2027 sits at only 8%, suggesting the market doubts even a summit, let alone a peace deal.",
"Resolves via Polymarket's uma_oracle upon confirmation of a formally agreed ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine."
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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