Photos Of The Week No. 7
A girl looks at symbolic paper angels paying tribute to the "Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred," referring to those killed during anti-government demonstrations in early 2014, during a memorial event near Kyiv's Independence Square, known as the Maidan, on February 18.
Pakistani craftsmen build a boat at the shipyard in the southern port city of Karachi.
A woman walks by as observers survey a crater and damage to a house from an artillery shell that landed in the front-line town of Vrubivka in eastern Ukraine on February 17.
A vendor sells dried fish at her street stall in Odesa, Ukraine.
Family members hold pictures of their missing relatives during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan, on February 16. Pakistani human rights activists claim many have been picked up by state agencies, primarily under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
The building of Ukraine's cabinet of ministers is illuminated with the colors of the Ukrainian flag on a national Day of Unity in Kyiv on February 16.
Montenegrin politician Aleksa Becic speaks to demonstrators at a protest rally over the potential formation of a minority government in Podgorica on February 16.
A Polish border guard stands on duty at the construction site for a fence on Poland's border with Belarus near the town of Tolcze.
A Pakistani carpenter sands a panel-carving at a workshop in Peshawar.
Kyrgyz servicemen take part in planned exercises at the Ala-Too training ground, 25 kilometers from Bishkek.
A vessel of the Russian Navy is seen through a flock of birds in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in occupied Crimea.
Ukrainian servicemen talk at a frontline position outside Popasna in the eastern Luhansk region, where they battle Russia-backed separatists amid a massive Russian military buildup near the Ukrainian border.
Priests read prayers in honor of St. Haralampus as believers gather around candles stuck to jars of honey arranged in a cross during a mass for the "sanctification of honey" at the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin church in the town of Blagoevgrad, south of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church marked the day of St. Haralampus, the Orthodox patron saint of beekeepers, by performing a ritual for health and a rich harvest.
Veterans pray during a memorial service for soldiers killed in Afghanistan, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on February 15.
Jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny (second from left) and his wife Yulia Navalnaya are seen on a monitor screen during a court hearing in a penal colony in Russia's Vladimir region on February 15.
People walk next to a Russian Christmas Market set up on Red Square in Moscow on February 14.
A Taliban fighter directs traffic as a street vendor sells red heart-shaped balloons for Valentine's Day in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Ukrainian servicemen take part in combat training in the Chernihiv region.
A protester supporting Russian anti-corruption activist Aleksei Navalny is detained in the northern city of Arkhangelsk.
A woman holds a sign that says 'The Ukrainian nation is invincible" during a March of Unity in Kyiv against the threat of a new military invasion of Ukraine by Russia.