NATO’s secretary-general said he wants to discuss ways to put Ukraine in a position of strength for any future peace talks with Russia during a meeting Wednesday with Ukraine’s president and a small number of European leaders.

The killing of a senior Russian general in a bombing outside his apartment building in Moscow was the boldest assassination yet of a top military officer and again brought the war in Ukraine to the streets of the capital.

Russia’s security service says that it has detained a suspect in the killing of a senior general in Moscow. The suspect was described as an Uzbek citizen recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services.

A new NATO-led command designed to support Ukraine is up and running in Wiesbaden, taking over an effort previously overseen by American forces, the alliance’s military headquarters said Wednesday.

Keith Kellogg, a retired general and Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, plans to visit Kyiv next month and would be open to meetings in Moscow if invited, as the incoming administration seeks to end the nearly three-year war.

A senior U.S. military official says a couple hundred North Korean troops fighting alongside Russian forces against Ukraine have been killed or wounded in battle in the Kursk border region.

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a dual Russian-U.K. citizen and one of the leading Russian opposition figures, said that the worries that his mother could have been poisoned or suffered a heart attack haven’t been corroborated.

The role of the German government and Ramstein Air Base in coordinated U.S. drone strikes is under scrutiny by the country’s highest court, which took up the case of two men whose relatives were killed in a 2012 attack in Yemen.