Photos Of The Week (November 20-26, 2023)

A stray cat warms up in the light of the setting sun as the autumn foliage dots the pavement in a park in Bucharest.

An aerial view shows a car abandoned on the front line close to Bakhmut in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.

A kitchen train named the Food Train, designed to make and distribute up to 70,000 meals a week, sets off on its maiden journey from the Ukrainian capital to frontline areas in the east on November 23.

A woman chooses apples from a street vendor in snowfall in St. Petersburg, Russia.

A woman walks in a park during a first snowfall in Kyiv on November 22.

Iranian women hold placards during a march by members of Iranian paramilitary Basij forces in Tehran to show their solidarity with Gaza's people on November 24.

A man puts up traditional Afghani naan for sale in Karachi, Pakistan. The sales of Afghani naan have significantly dropped in the neighborhoods after the Pakistani government's deadline to expel undocumented Afghan immigrants expired on November 1 and thousands of refugees returned to their homeland.

Afghan children read the Koran at a madrasah or Islamic school in the Fayzabad district of Badakhshan Province.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (right) and Montenegrin President Jakov Milatovic review a military honor guard at the presidential Bellevue Palace in Berlin on November 21.

A man walks by artillery gun barrels as he visits an exhibition of military equipment and weapons at the Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineering, and Communications Forces in St. Petersburg on November 19, which Russia celebrates as the Day of Missile Forces and Artillery.

A girl pushes a disabled soldier in a wheelchair in front of frescoes of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv.

Ukraine's Oleksandr Zinchenko applauds his team's fans after they narrowly failed to gain automatic qualification for the Euro 2024 soccer tournament following a 0-0 draw with Italy. 

Ukrainian rescuers work at a hospital that was badly damaged by a Russian missile strike in the town of Selydove in the Donetsk region.

Workers install decorations on a festive tree for the New Year and Christmas season near the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. 

Abandoned bicycles lie at the international border crossing between Russia and Finland in Salla, Lapland, amid an uptick in migrants entering from Russia to seek asylum in the Nordic country.