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    As talks with Ukraine resume, offer by Russia to reduce attacks is met with skepticism

    by Patrick J. McDonnell, Jaweed Kaleem and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Mar 29, 2022 6 minutes
    A worker watches an excavator clearing the rubble of a government building hit by Russian rockets in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on March 29, 2022.

    LVIV, Ukraine — Russian negotiators Tuesday offered to pull back attacks on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in a step toward ending the war between the two nations, but U.S. and Western officials remained skeptical of Moscow’s true intentions.

    The offer came as Russian and Ukrainian officials held a new round of talks and Ukrainian forces continued to mount fierce resistance in northern parts of the country against a relentless campaign of Russian shelling and missile attacks that have destroyed residential neighborhoods, hospitals and fuel storage depots.

    But rather than ending the war, it seemed more likely that Russian President Vladimir Putin was merely shifting focus to the eastern and southern parts of Ukraine, where his forces have moved deeper into the separatist Donbas region and battered the coastal town of Mariupol.

    “We will judge Putin and his regime by his actions, not by his words,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said through a spokesman.

    In Tuesday’s talks, held in Istanbul, Ukraine also

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