Putin wants Ukraine talks widened to Europe's security, Wanner says

The correspondent sees little prospect of an Abu Dhabi breakthrough and points instead to a possible Trump-Xi-Putin meeting in China.

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0:00The anchor reports Trump's suggestion that Ukrainian territorial losses could form part of a settlement.
0:48Wanner expects little immediate progress from US-Russian-Ukrainian working talks in Abu Dhabi.
1:25China's APEC summit could provide a setting for a Xi-Trump-Putin meeting, Wanner suggests.
2:01Russia demands the entire Donbas and Ukrainian neutrality, without NATO membership or NATO troops, according to Wanner.
2:30Putin also seeks wider security negotiations; Wanner says Western European states want a stable peace first.
3:06Putin's possible attendance at the Miami G20 summit remains dependent on preceding diplomatic talks, Wanner says.

Russia wants more than an agreement on Ukraine's territory and military status, correspondent Christoph Wanner reports: Vladimir Putin also wants negotiations over a new international security framework.

Speaking from Kyiv for Germany's WELT Nachrichtensender, Wanner says Western European governments oppose opening those wider negotiations before a stable peace exists. That leaves a further disagreement alongside Moscow's demands over Ukrainian territory and NATO.

The report says representatives of the United States, Russia and Ukraine are due to hold working talks in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates' capital, on November 10. Wanner does not expect a breakthrough there. Instead, he points to the APEC summit in China on November 18 and 19 as a possible setting for a meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump and Putin. He presents that encounter as a possibility, not a confirmed summit.

A map accompanies his account of Russia's core demands: Ukraine would have to withdraw from the whole of the Donbas, comprising Donetsk and Luhansk, and the territory would be incorporated into Russia. Wanner says Moscow also insists on a neutral Ukraine, with neither NATO membership nor NATO troops on its territory. These are Russian demands, not terms the report says Ukraine has accepted.

The broadcast opens with Trump's suggestion that territorial losses could be the price of ending the war. Its German title, "UKRAINE-KRIEG: Entscheidet sich alles in China? Jetzt will Putin noch eine Forderung durchboxen", asks whether everything will be decided in China and says Putin wants to push through another demand.

Wanner also discusses whether Putin might attend the G20 summit in Miami. He leaves that unresolved, saying the outcome of earlier diplomatic contacts is likely to shape the decision.

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