Mud and lost tree cover complicate Ukraine's front, Wanner reports

The Kyiv correspondent pairs a battlefield update with skepticism about the Russian delegation's authority ahead of Abu Dhabi talks.

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0:00The anchors report Trump's suggestion that Ukraine would have a different shape after a settlement.
1:03Wanner urges limited expectations for Abu Dhabi talks, questioning the political weight of Russia's delegation.
2:20Possible meetings in China and Miami put Putin's diplomacy with Trump and Xi in a wider setting.
4:15Wanner says autumn mud restricts movement and falling leaves reduce troops' concealment from drones.
4:45He reports fighting across several front sectors and mutual attacks on infrastructure and weapons factories.

Autumn mud is restricting movement, while falling leaves are stripping troops of cover from drones, correspondent Christoph Wanner reports from Kyiv. His assessment is that neither Russian nor Ukrainian forces are achieving strategic breakthroughs in the areas he discusses.

The update comes in a report by Germany's WELT Nachrichtensender that links conditions at the front with preparations for further negotiations over Russia's war in Ukraine. The broadcast opens with President Donald Trump's suggestion that Ukraine would have a somewhat different shape after a possible settlement, raising the prospect of territorial losses.

The channel reports planned talks in Abu Dhabi involving the United States, Russia and Ukraine, with French participation. Wanner cautions against expecting too much from the Russian delegation led by Vladimir Medinsky, a former Russian culture minister. His argument concerns political authority: he does not regard Medinsky as a heavyweight, and says President Vladimir Putin attends personally when an issue is important to him.

Wanner also considers possible meetings bringing Putin together with Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. He discusses a planned APEC gathering in China and the possibility of Putin attending the G20 summit in Miami. These are presented as diplomatic prospects, not completed meetings or agreements.

The report places Russian demands concerning the Donbas, NATO and European security within that broader negotiating picture. Wanner's assessment is that Moscow could seek to strengthen its position before winter.

Returning to the battlefield, he describes fighting around Sloviansk, Dobropillia, Velyka Novosilka and Orikhiv. He also reports attacks by both sides on infrastructure and weapons factories behind the front. The seasonal change adds another constraint: troops can no longer advance beneath the same leafy canopy that previously helped conceal them from drones.

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