Top Shots: Compelling Images From Across Our Region

A partial lunar eclipse is seen over a residential building in Moscow. 

Afghan schoolgirls travel in a car along a road in the Faizabad district of Badakhshan Province. 

A resident of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk looks out of her apartment, which was hit during what Moscow-installed authorities called a Ukrainian military strike. 

Smoke rises at the site of a glide bomb blast in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on September 17.

A young horse vaulter practices on the sandbags in a small family-run stable amid flooding in Szodliget, Hungary.

A car drives past a destroyed bridge in the town of Pokrovsk in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.

A woman cleans the floor of a church after floodwaters receded from the village of Pechea, Romania.

A Ukrainian soldier runs to help farmers extinguish a burning field near Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine.

A protester holds a placard during a march in Paris marking the second anniversary of a protest movement sparked by the death in custody of Kurdish-Iranian student Mahsa Amini.

A woman looks at an installation with a power transformer, damaged by a Russian military strike in central Kyiv.

Members and supporters of the LGBT community drive cars during the Auto Pride Parade in Kharkiv.

A plastic doll lays face down in the mud in the flood-hit village of Pechea, near the Romanian city of Galati.

 A view of an illuminated street for the celebrations of Mawlid al-Nabi, the anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad's birth, in Karachi, Pakistan.

Afghan boys take photos in the courtyard of the Hazrat-e Ali Shrine or Blue Mosque in Mazar-e Sharif.

Soldiers carry sandbags to strengthen the dam along the Danube in Pilismarot, Hungary.

A temporary exhibition was opened in Podil, Kyiv, in memory of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, who was kidnapped and killed in September 2000.

A polio worker administers a vaccine to a child in Kandahar, Afghanistan.