Photos Of The Week (October 3-9)

A Ukrainian multiple rocket launcher fires at Russian positions in the Kharkiv region.

The national flag of Hungary flies at half staff during a ceremony marking the 173rd anniversary of 13 Hungarian rebel generals being executed by the Austrian Empire in 1849.

Destroyed Russian tanks and armored vehicles in the recently liberated Ukrainian town of Lyman. (file photo)

People in a tram in Belgrade pass a big screen showing Russian President Vladimir Putin wishing him a happy birthday from his "Serb brethren!" on October 7. 

A boy holds a toy machine gun as he stands next to a World War II monument in the Russian town of Podolsk, some 40 kilometers outside Moscow.

Greenpeace activists hold a protest demanding an end to fossil fuels and in support of renewable resources ahead of an informal EU summit in Prague. 

Hungarian demonstrators light up their cell phones during a rally in Budapest in support of teachers fighting for higher wages and teachers who have been fired for protesting. 

A communal worker carries a cross during the funeral of Mykhaylo Matyushenko, a colonel in the Ukrainian armed forces who was shot down in the sky over the Black Sea in June, at a cemetery in Bucha in the Kyiv region. 

A girl sits on a cot as she crosses a flooded street in Sohbatpur in the Jaffarabad district of Pakistan's Balochistan Province. 

Dmytro Kozatskiy, a member of Ukraine's Azov Regiment who had been captured defending Mariupol, is photographed showing his emaciated body after being held in Russian captivity from May until he was freed recently in a prisoner exchange. 

A woman and a child walk on Red Square in front of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.

A flood victim suffering from a fever waits for medical attention in Sehwan, Pakistan. Stagnant floodwaters, spread over hundreds of square kilometers, may take up to six months to recede in some places and have already led to widespread cases of skin and eye infections, diarrhea, malaria, typhoid, and dengue fever. 

A man uses his mobile phone as he stands on a bridge destroyed by a Russian missile strike in Svyatohirsk, Ukraine.

A woman shelters from the rain under an umbrella while walking on an autumn day in Moscow.

An anonymous artist dyed the water in several Tehran fountains red as a sign of solidarity with protesters as demonstrations continued for the fourth week across Iran following the death in custody of a 22-year-old woman who was detained and allegedly beaten by the morality police.  

Hundreds in North Macedonia's Ohrid protested on October 7 against the opening of a new Bulgarian cultural center named after a Nazi collaborator, in the latest spat between the two countries.