Photos Of The Week (November 21-27)
Colleagues and friends attend a funeral for Ukrainian soldier and ballet dancer Vadym Khlupyanets, who was recently killed while fighting Russian troops, at the National Academic Operetta's Theater in Kyiv on November 24.
Rain runs down the face of a statue in Kyiv dedicated to the victims of the Holodomor on November 26, the day on which Ukraine commemorates this catastrophic famine that killed millions in 1932-33.
Iran's national soccer team celebrates Rouzbeh Cheshmi (center) after he scored the first goal in overtime during the World Cup Group B match between Wales and Iran, at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium in Qatar on November 25.
People wave Russian and Armenian flags as the city hosts a session of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation on November 23.
A Ukrainian soldier gestures as a captured T-80 Russian tank fires at an enemy position in the Donetsk region.
Pakistani commuters make their way across a bridge amid heavy smog in Lahore.
A man prays in front of soldiers' graves on Ukraine's Day of Dignity and Freedom at the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv on November 21.
People walk past St Basil's Cathedral on Moscow's Red Square.
A plate with frozen food is seen in the apartment of Tetyana Reznychenko. Her apartment has no electricity, heating, or water and is on the fifth floor of a building heavily damaged by a Russian military strike in the Ukrainian village of Horenka.
Iran's national soccer team chose not to sing their country's anthem before their opening World Cup match against England on November 21 in an apparent show of support for protesters back home.
Women shelter under an umbrella on November 21 as they walk past a mural in Pristina. Heavy rain caused floods in many cities in Kosovo, damaging agricultural land and family businesses, while some cities also face a shortage of drinking water and are suspending school classes.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appears on a large screen as he speaks via video conference during the 68th annual session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Madrid on November 21.
Russian missile attacks hit critical civilian infrastructure in Kyiv, leaving the city in darkness on November 23.
Afghan youth play cricket at the Nadir Khan hilltop.
A Ukrainian serviceman pauses after coming back from the front line near Kherson, southern Ukraine.
Ukrainian children play at an abandoned checkpoint in Kherson.
Ukrainian soldiers fire toward Russian positions at the frontline near Kherson on November 23.
A teacher helps two students cross a river in Lagan Khar, a village in the Swat district in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
A woman carries a kitten found in a residential building destroyed by a Russian missile attack in the town of Vyshhorod, near Kyiv.
Dancers perform a scene from The Nutcracker ballet staged by choreographer Yuri Posokhov at the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theater.
People wait in line to fill up bottles with drinking water from a well in Kherson, southern Ukraine.
A woman wounded in a Russian attack lies inside an ambulance before being taken to a hospital in Kherson.
A Ukrainian soldier stands by as a Grad multiple-rocket launcher fires at Russian positions on the front line near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine.
People march in support of free speech in Biskhek on November 25.