Photos Of The Week (February 20-26, 2023)
Anna, 10, cries next to the body of her brother Yuriy, 27, during his funeral in Kalynivka, near Kyiv. Kulyk, a civilian who was a volunteer in the armed forces of Ukraine, was killed during a rocket attack on February 15 in Lyman.
Relatives mourn next to the body of a Ukrainian soldier during his funeral in Kalynivka, near Kyiv.
Iranian women eat as they sit in a commercial area in Tehran.
Truck drivers drink tea close to their stranded trucks loaded with supplies for Afghanistan as they wait to for the Torkham border crossing into Pakistan to open after it was closed by the Taliban authorities in Kabul.
Soldiers hold roses at their commander's funeral outside the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul Church in Lviv in western Ukraine.
Members of the special police forces of North Macedonia prepare different types of drugs and weapons for destruction at the Makstil steel plant in Skopje. About 1,400 kilograms of drugs and 270 pieces of various illegal weapons confiscated in 2022 were destroyed.
A view shows external damage believed to have caused a loss of pressure in the cooling system of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked at the ISS.
Supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, the head of the opposition political party Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI), escort his vehicle as he arrives for a hearing at the Lahore High Court. The court granted Khan protective bail until March 3 in a case related to alleged rioting by PTI protesters in Islamabad in October 2022.
U.S. President Joe Biden (right) embraces his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, during a surprise visit to Kyiv.
A float from a street carnival in the German city of Dusseldorf depicts Russian President Vladimir Putin washing himself in blood in a bathtub decorated with the yellow and blue colors of the Ukrainian flag.
A woman lights a candle in Kyiv to pays tribute to the Maidan activists, also called the "Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred," in reference to the participants killed during anti-government protests in 2014.
Mechanics of the Ukrainian Army's 14th Mechanized Brigade work on parts of armored vehicles at the brigade's workshop in the Kharkiv region.
Valeria, a member of the White Angel unit of Ukrainian police officers who evacuates people from the front line, places body armor on Vika Savchenko, 8, during her evacuation from her village of Zarichne.
Pigeons take off from the beach in front of a TV screen showing Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual state of the nation address, in Sevastopol, Crimea.
Red Square was closed for security reasons prior to Putin's annual state of the nation address.
An aerial view shows a residential building damaged by shelling in Izyum, Kharkiv region.
Viktor, a surgeon for a frontline medical stabilization point, stands in the operating room.
Dogs wait for food at a shelter that looks after about 60 stray animals in Kramatorsk, Ukraine.
People wave Russian flags as President Vladimir Putin walks on stage to deliver his state-of-the-nation speech at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on February 22.
A destroyed Russian tank sits in a snow covered wheat field in the Kharkiv region.
Ukrainian soldiers who are undergoing training at Bovington Camp, a British Army military base, wave a Ukrainian flag, in southwest England.
Afghan children play with a tire along a street in the Argo district of Badakhshan Province.
The building of Kharkiv University was damaged by Russian strikes.
Mykola Berezyk (left), a chaplain to the Ukrainian Army, conducts a prayer for Ukrainian servicemen who returned from the front line as a serviceman kisses a cross in the Donetsk region.
Afghan horsemen compete in the traditional sport of buzkashi in the Fayzabad district of Badakhshan Province.
A carnival float depicts the fight for freedom in Iran during the traditional carnival parade in Dusseldorf, Germany.
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AFGHANISTAN-ECONOMY-AGRICULTURE -- Afghan farmers work at a farmland for poppy cultivation in Argo district of Badakhshan province. February 21, 2023