Photos Of The Week No. 4
Russian T-72B3 tanks take part in military exercises at a firing range in the southern Rostov region, near the Ukrainian border.
A woman walks in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, on a sunny winter's day on January 27.
Ukrainian schoolchildren look at munitions during a lesson on how to detect and treat suspicious devices and ammunition amid the military escalation on their country's eastern border.
Afghan women rally during a Taliban-approved protest in support of the regime in front of the abandoned U.S. Embassy in Kabul. The women called for Western nations to unfreeze Afghan assets held abroad as the country's humanitarian crisis deepens.
Afghan boys ride bicycles in floodwater along a stream in the Daman district of Kandahar.
A woman walks past a monument to soldiers killed in action during wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya in the Russian village of Shebekino outside Belgorod, a few kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
A health worker in Romania, which has initiated a COVID vaccination campaign for children aged 5-11, waits for her young patients at an inoculation center in Bucharest on January 26.
A Ukrainian serviceman and a cat at a shelter on the front line not far from Donetsk, which is controlled by Russia-backed separatists, amid fears of a looming Russian invasion.
Men cross Afghanistan's Arghandab River on a three-wheel bike laden with branches on the outskirts of Kandahar.
Two young women take a selfie in front of a burning "examination effigy" during Russian Students Day celebrations in Kazan on January 25.
Private entrepreneurs and police officers clash during a rally in Kyiv calling on the Ukrainian government to do more to support private business.
Pakistani security officials in Peshawar conduct inspections at a checkpoint amid a high-security alert in the country, which has seen a spike in violent incidents since the Taliban takeover of neighboring Afghanistan.
A woman pushes a pram past the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv on January 24. Ukraine said it was "premature" of the United States to evacuate the families of its diplomatic staff in Kyiv due to fears of a looming Russian invasion.
People help to push a trolley bus from an intersection during a power outage in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, on January 25.
Members of volunteer military units train in a city park in Kyiv amid heightened tensions following a buildup of Russian forces near Ukraine's border.
A man bundles up to fend against the cold as he sits beside a road in Karachi, Pakistan.
Children wait for free bread in front of a bakery in Kabul.
Members of a Russian infectious-diseases medical team from a St. Petersburg hospital make a house call to a suspected COVID-19 patient.