Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 38th week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Top Shots: Compelling Images From Across Our Region
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Smoke rises at the site of a glide bomb blast in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on September 17.
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A young horse vaulter practices on the sandbags in a small family-run stable amid flooding in Szodliget, Hungary.
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A car drives past a destroyed bridge in the town of Pokrovsk in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.
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A woman cleans the floor of a church after floodwaters withdrew from the village of Pechea, Romania.
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A Ukrainian soldier runs to help farmers extinguish a burning field near Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine.
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A protester holds a placard during a march in Paris marking the second anniversary of a protest movement sparked by the death in custody of Kurdish-Iranian student Mahsa Amini.
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A woman looks at an installation with a power transformer, damaged by a Russian military strike in central Kyiv.
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Members and supporters of the LGBT community drive cars during the Auto Pride Parade in Kharkiv.
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A plastic doll lays face down in the mud in the flood-hit village of Pechea, near the Romanian city of Galati.
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A view of an illuminated street for the celebrations of Mawlid al-Nabi, the anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad's birth, in Karachi, Pakistan.
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Alexa Grasso of Mexico (red gloves) fights Valentina Shevchenko of Kyrgyzstan during Riyadh Season Noche UFC 306 at The Sphere in Las Vegas.
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Afghan boys take photos in the courtyard of the Hazrat-e Ali Shrine or Blue Mosque in Mazar-e Sharif.
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Soldiers carry sandbags to strengthen the dam along the Danube in Pilismarot, Hungary.
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A temporary exhibition was opened in Podil, Kyiv, in memory of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, who was kidnapped and killed in September 2000.
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A polio worker administers a vaccine to a child in Kandahar, Afghanistan.