Photos Of The Week (January 16-22, 2023)

A believer dips into a wave during a ceremony marking the Orthodox Christian feast of Epiphany in the Black Sea resort city of Saky, Crimea.

An interior view shows a room of a kindergarten damaged by a Russian missile strike in Kramatorsk, Ukraine.

Local residents fill up plastic bags with natural gas to be used for cooking food at home in the Karak district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. The government has not established any proper infrastructure for providing natural gas to local residents or surrounding areas, so people are putting their lives at risk just to use natural gas as a means of cooking their food at home. People have been using a hose to extract gas from main supply lines instead of drilling.

Pedestrians walk by a damaged and displaced car on a street after heavy rain in Skenderaj, Kosovo.

Activists of the Exile-Iranian Society hold placards and gallows as they demonstrate in solidarity with anti-government protesters in their home country in front of the Reichstag, Berlin.

A white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) spreads its wings at the Hortobagy National Park near Hortobagy, Hungary.

Kristijan Nineski, 26, catches the cross that was thrown in the Vardar River by the head of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, Archbishop Stefan, during Epiphany day celebrations in Skopje, North Macedonia.

A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Lahore, Pakistan.

Smoke rises as Donetsk's emergency employees work at the site of a shopping center destroyed in what Russian officials in Donetsk, Ukraine, said was shelling by Ukrainian forces.

Georgia's Nikoloz Basilashvili hits a return against the U.S.A.'s Taylor Fritz during their men's singles match on day two of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne.

People attend the funeral of Mykhaylo Korenovskiy, a Ukrainian boxing coach and father of two who was killed during a Russian missile attack in Dnipro, Ukraine.

An Afghan laborer carries oil containers provided by a nongovernmental organization for distribution among those in need at a gymnasium in Kabul.

A Ukrainian soldier prepares a Polish self-propelled Krab howitzer to fire toward Russian positions on a front line in Ukraine's Donetsk region.

People plunge into ice-cold water as others gather around an ice hole during celebrations of the Orthodox Christian feast of Epiphany in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

A woman reacts as she lays flowers near the site of a deadly helicopter crash in the town of Brovary, outside Kyiv.

Ukrainian deminers view a controlled bomb explosion at a mine field in the village of Preytotoeung in Cambodia. Fifteen Ukrainian deminers are being trained by experts in Cambodia, who are among the world's best because of experience from clearing the leftovers of nearly three decades of war. 

People talk in front of a monument to the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, at Lenin State Farm outside Moscow. 

A vendor serves warm soup for customers at a street stall during a cold winter evening in Peshawar, Pakistan.