Top Shots: Compelling Images From Our Region

Hrizostom Jevic, a Bosnian prelate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, puts dried oak wood on a fire outside a church in Sarajevo on January 6 as part of the Balkan tradition of burning oak branches, symbolizing the Yuletide log, on Orthodox Christmas Eve. 

A Kosovo ethnic Serb carries a dried oak branch symbolizing the Yuletide log on Orthodox Christmas Eve in the village of Gracanica on January 6. 

A nun walks outside a monastery that has been heavily damaged by artillery and gunfire in Ukraine's Russian-occupied Donetsk region. 

Bulgarian men sing and dance in river water during their country's celebrations of the feast of the Epiphany on January 6. 

An Orthodox military chaplain with the Ukrainian Armed Forces celebrates an Epiphany mass with soldiers in the Dnipropetrovsk region.