War in Ukraine live updates: Russia says it will scale back attacks on northern Ukraine

Published March 29, 2022 at 8:17 AM EDT

A woman in Kyiv cries after fleeing her home in the outskirts of the city on Tuesday.

Russian negotiators said they would pare back military activity near Kyiv, a tentative first sign of progress in weeks-long negotiations. But an expert at the Carnegie Endowment calls the prospects for peace "very dim."

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