Photos Of The Week (March 4-10, 2024)

A Ukrainian soldier fires a 122 mm mortar toward Russian positions at the front line near Bakhmut.

Activists hold a rally in support of women's rights on International Women's Day in Baku, Azerbaijan, on March 8. 

 A view of an apartment block next to the chimneys of a thermal power plant in Omsk, Russia. 

An Afghan horseman rides his animal through snow in Kabul. 

Ukrainian servicemen during a funeral service in Kyiv carry the coffin of a Lithuanian soldier who was killed while fighting for the Ukrainian Armed Forces against Russia’s invasion. 

A volunteer working for an NGO prepares food packages for distribution among people affected by heavy rains in Gwadar in southwestern Pakistan. 

A woman walks past a memorial wall dedicated to fallen defenders of Ukraine in the Russian-Ukrainian war in downtown Kyiv.

Communist Party supporters line up to place flowers at Josef Stalin's grave near the Kremlin Wall to mark the 71st anniversary of his death with the mausoleum of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin in the background in Red Square in Moscow on March 5.

A waste picker scouts for recyclable junk from a sewage drain used as a garbage dump at a slum area in Lahore, Pakistan.

A resident cleans up her apartment in a building damaged in a Russian military strike in the town of Kurakhove in eastern Ukraine.

Afghan women walk down a road in Fayzabad.

Petra Banhidi-Farkas of Hungary competes in the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.

An Afghan man feeds his pigeons on the outskirts of Kandahar.

A man works in the engine hall of the Ust-Ilimsk Hydroelectric Power Station in the Irkutsk region in eastern Siberia, some 5,000 kilometers from Moscow.

A Ukrainian soldier nicknamed "Bullet," who has served in the army for more than a year, stands in front of Ukrainian national flags commemorating the country's fallen soldiers on Independence Square in downtown Kyiv.

A woman attends a memorial service for a commander of the First Mechanized Battalion, a Ukrainian soldier Dmytro Kotsyubaylo, known as "Da Vinci," who was killed a year ago near Bakhmut.

An Afghan paraglider takes off on the outskirts of Bamiyan Province.

A woman handcrafts embroidery on clothing at her home in Karachi, Pakistan.