Photos Of The Week (September 23-29, 2024)

A drone explodes in the night sky over the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. 

A Ukrainian military medic treats an injured soldier in the Donetsk region. 

Boatmen work on Moscow's Great Palace Pond with the Church of the Holy Trinity in Ostankino in the background. 

Iranian worshippers burn a U.S. flag during an anti-Israeli rally after Friday Prayers in Tehran. 

An ornithologist takes a picture of a spotted flycatcher in the marshlands of salt fields in Ulcinj, Montenegro. 

Volunteers clean up the banks of Badovac Lake during an operation to mark World Cleanup Day in Badovce, near Pristina, on September 20.

A banner honoring the dozens of people who were killed in a coal-mine explosion in eastern Iran has been erected over a street in the country's capital, Tehran 

An injured woman is seen next to her apartment building, which was damaged by a Russian air strike, in Zaporizhzhya in southeastern Ukraine. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (signing a shell in the center of the picture) visits the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania while on a trip to the United States. 

An Afghan girl harvests cotton in a field in the Daman district of Kandahar Province.

A couple looks at posters depicting deceased Ukrainian soldiers from the Azov Brigade at an open-air exhibition in Kyiv.

A Russian gymnast poses for a photo on Red Square in front of the Kremlin's Spasskaya tower and St. Basil's Cathedral in downtown Moscow.

Local residents walk past a heavily damaged building following a Russian strike in the city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine's Donetsk region.