In southern Ukraine, a Russian missile strike Saturday targeted port infrastructure in the Black Sea city of Odesa, killing eight people and wounding 27 others. The attack came as Russia’s military claimed control over two more villages in the Donetsk and Sumy regions of Ukraine.

In Moscow, a senior Russian general died Monday morning in a car bomb explosion outside a block of apartment buildings. Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov led the Russian military’s operational training department. His assassination comes a year after Ukraine claimed responsibility for blowing up the head of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical weapons defense forces.

In Miami, Florida, President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff praised talks aimed at ending Russia’s war on Ukraine as “productive and constructive” after separate meetings with Ukrainian, European and Russian negotiators over the weekend. President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, also joined the talks, which showed no obvious signs of a breakthrough. Reuters reports U.S. intelligence assessments continue to warn that Russian President Vladimir Putin has not abandoned his aims of capturing all of Ukraine and expanding Russia’s influence over former Soviet bloc states.