Photos Of The Week: Compelling Images From Our Region

Outside the Lviv City Council, 109 empty strollers signified the number of children killed so far in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

An Indian couple stained with colored powder enjoys a loving moment during Holi festival celebrations in Chennai. Holi, also known as the Festival Of Colors, is an ancient Indian Hindu festival symbolizing the victory of good over evil and marking the arrival of spring.

An evacuee from Ukraine walks with her dog at the Ukrainian-Romanian border in Siret in northern Romania.

A poster depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin is displayed during a protest rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Riga, Latvia, on March 17. 

A woman watches the Northern Lights from the shore of Lake Ladoga in Russia's Leningrad region. 

A Ukrainian woman hugs her cat inside a train carriage in a subway station that is being used as a bomb shelter in Kyiv. 

A Pakistani bride's hands are adorned with jewelry and henna patterns during a ceremony in Rawalpindi, Islamabad, on March 16. 

A man waits for customers as he sells anti-mosquito nets beside a road in Peshawar, Pakistan. 

An Afghan farmer works in poppy fields on the outskirts of Kandahar. 

Samsas, traditional Central Asian meat pies, being cooked in a bakery in Osh, Kyrgyzstan.

Firefighters extinguish fires in an apartment building after it was hit by shelling in Kyiv on March 15.

Squatters display banners and a Ukrainian flag as they occupy a building in London on March 14 that is believed to be owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

A farmer works at a poppy field in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province.

Olivia, 2, holds her rat Maya after arriving together with her relatives from Kyiv at a temporary accommodation for people fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Rzeszow, Poland.

Firefighters remove the body of an elderly woman after Russian shelling in a residential area in Kyiv on March 15.