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RELIEF FOR KYIV? RUSSIA VOWS TO SCALE BACK NEAR THE CAPITAL

By NEBI QENA and YURAS KARMANAUyesterday

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A man walks with his dog near an apartment building damaged by shelling from
fighting on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, in territory under control of
the separatist government of the Donetsk People's Republic, on Tuesday, March
29, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia announced Tuesday it will significantly scale back
military operations near Ukraine’s capital and a northern city, as the outlines
of a possible deal to end the grinding war came into view at the latest round of
talks.

Ukraine’s delegation at the conference, held in Istanbul, laid out a framework
under which the country would declare itself neutral and its security would be
guaranteed by an array of other nations.

Moscow’s public reaction was positive, and the negotiations are expected to
resume Wednesday, five weeks into what has devolved into a bloody war of
attrition, with thousands dead and almost 4 million Ukrainians fleeing the
country.

Amid the talks, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin said Moscow has
decided to “fundamentally ... cut back military activity in the direction of
Kyiv and Chernihiv” to “increase mutual trust and create conditions for further
negotiations.”

He did not immediately spell out what that would mean in practical terms.

The announcement was met with skepticism from the U.S. and others.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia cannot be trusted. Although
the signals from the talks are “positive,” they ”can’t silence explosions of
Russian shells,” he said in a video address.

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Zelenskyy said it was Ukrainian troops who forced Russia’s hand, adding that “we
shouldn’t let down our guard” because the invading army still “has a great
potential to continue attacks against our country.”

Ukraine will continue negotiations, he said, but officials do not trust the word
of the country that continues “fighting to destroy us.”

While Moscow portrayed it as a goodwill gesture, its ground troops have become
bogged down and taken heavy losses in their bid to seize Kyiv and other cities.
Last week and again on Tuesday, the Kremlin seemed to lower its war aims, saying
its “main goal” now is gaining control of the mostly Russian-speaking Donbas
region in eastern Ukraine.

U.S. President Joe Biden, asked whether the Russian announcement was a sign of
progress in the talks or an attempt by Moscow to buy time to continue its
assault, said: “We’ll see. I don’t read anything into it until I see what their
actions are.”

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suggested Russian indications of a
pullback could be an attempt by Moscow to “deceive people and deflect
attention.”

It wouldn’t be the first time. In the tense buildup to the invasion, the Russian
military announced that some units were loading equipment onto rail cars and
preparing to return to their home bases after completing exercises. At the time,
Putin was signaling interest in diplomacy. But 10 days later, Russia launched
its invasion.

Western officials say Moscow is now reinforcing troops in the Donbas in a bid to
encircle Ukraine’s forces. And Russia’s deadly siege in the south continues,
with civilians trapped in the ruins of Mariupol and other bombarded cities. The
latest satellite imagery from commercial provider Maxar Technologies showed
hundreds of people waiting outside a grocery store amid reports of food and
water shortages.

“There is what Russia says and there is what Russia does, and we’re focused on
the latter,” Blinken said in Morocco. “And what Russia is doing is the continued
brutalization of Ukraine.”

Even as negotiators gathered, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces blasted
a gaping hole in a nine-story government administration building in a strike on
the southern port city of Mykolaiv, killing at least 12 people, emergency
authorities said. The search for more bodies in the rubble continued.

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“It’s terrible. They waited for people to go to work” before striking the
building, said regional governor Vitaliy Kim. “I overslept. I’m lucky.”

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. has detected small numbers of
Russian ground forces moving away from the Kyiv area, but it appeared to be a
repositioning of forces, “not a real withdrawal.”

He said it was too soon to say how extensive the Russian movements may be or
where the troops will be repositioned.

“It does not mean the threat to Kyiv is over,” Kirby said. “They can still
inflict massive brutality on the country, including on Kyiv.” He said Russian
airstrikes against Kyiv continued.

Rob Lee, a military expert at the U.S.-based Foreign Policy Research Institute,
tweeted of the Russian announcement: “This sounds like more of an acknowledgment
of the situation around Kyiv where Russia’s advance has been stalled for weeks
and Ukrainian forces have had recent successes. Russia doesn’t have the forces
to encircle the city.”

The meeting in Istanbul was the first time negotiators from Russia and Ukraine
talked face-to-face in two weeks. Earlier talks were held in person in Belarus
or by video.

Among other things, the Kremlin has demanded all along that Ukraine drop any
hope of joining NATO.

Ukraine’s delegation offered a detailed framework for a peace deal under which a
neutral Ukraine’s security would be guaranteed by a group of third countries,
including the U.S., Britain, France, Turkey, China and Poland, in an arrangement
similar to NATO’s “an attack on one is an attack on all” principle.

Ukraine said it would also be willing to hold talks over a 15-year period on the
future of the Crimean Peninsula, seized by Russia in 2014.

Vladimir Medinsky, head of the Russian delegation, said on Russian TV that the
Ukrainian proposals are a “step to meet us halfway, a clearly positive fact.”

He cautioned that the parties are still far from reaching an agreement, but
said: “We know now how to move further toward compromise. We aren’t just marking
time in talks.”

In other developments:

— In what appeared to be a coordinated action to tackle Russian espionage, the
Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Ireland and North Macedonia expelled
scores of Russian diplomats.

— The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency arrived in Ukraine to try to
ensure the safety of the country’s nuclear facilities. Russian forces have taken
control of the decommissioned Chernobyl plant, site in 1986 of the world’s worst
nuclear accident, and of the active Zaporizhzhia plant, where a building was
damaged in fighting.

— Russia has destroyed more than 60 religious buildings across the country in
just over a month of war, with most of the damage concentrated near Kyiv and in
the east, Ukraine’s military said.

— In the room at the Istanbul talks was Roman Abramovich, a longtime Putin ally
who has been sanctioned by Britain and the European Union. Kremlin spokesman
Dmitry Peskov said the Chelsea soccer team owner has been serving as an
unofficial mediator approved by both countries. But the mystery surrounding his
role has been deepened by news reports that he may have been poisoned during an
earlier round of talks.

Over the past several days, Ukrainian forces have mounted counterattacks and
reclaimed ground on the outskirts of Kyiv and other areas.

Ukrainian soldiers gathered in a trench for photos with Col. Gen. Oleksandr
Syrskyi, who said that Ukraine had retaken control of a vast majority of Irpin,
a key suburb northwest of the capital that has seen heavy fighting.

“We defend our motherland because we have very high morale,” said Syrskyi, the
commander in charge of the defense of Kyiv. “And because we want to win.”

Ukrainian forces also took back Trostyanets, south of Sumy in the northeast,
after weeks of occupation that left a landscape of Russian bodies, burned and
twisted tanks and charred buildings.

Putin’s ground forces have been thwarted not just by stronger-than-expected
Ukrainian resistance, but by what Western officials say are Russian tactical
missteps, poor morale, shortages of food, fuel and cold weather gear, and other
problems.

Repeating what the military said last week, Russian Defense Minister Sergei
Shoigu said Tuesday that “liberating Donbas” is now Moscow’s chief objective.

While that presents a possible face-saving exit strategy for Putin, it has also
raised Ukrainian fears the Kremlin aims to split the country and force it to
surrender a swath of its territory.

___

Karmanau reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Associated Press journalists around the
world contributed to this report.

___

Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine

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