Photos Of The Week (October 31 -- November 6)
Cars travel in the dark, with the Motherland Monument in the background, in central Kyiv on November 3. Rolling blackouts because of Russia's rocket attacks are increasing across Ukraine as the government rushes to stabilize the energy grid and repair the system ahead of winter.
A destroyed schoolyard after Russian shelling is seen in Pokrovsk in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.
A Russian man drafted as part of the country's military mobilization undergoes training at a shooting range of the Russian Northern Fleet in the Murmansk region on November 2.
A bride walks on Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Ukrainians light candles as they visit the graves of Ukrainian soldiers killed in the war with Russia at a cemetery in Lviv in western Ukraine on All Saint's Day and the Day of the Dead.
A 19th-century monastery in the village of Dolyna in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region lies in ruins amid the ongoing conflict in the country.
The St. Sophia Cathedral is silhouetted in the background as Kyiv is plunged into near darkness following a military strike that partially brought down the power infrastructure on October 31.
A man runs past a skeleton at a Halloween party during the evening holiday celebrations in Pristina on October 31.
Afghan women carry baskets of saffron flowers in a field on the outskirts of Herat Province.
A fisherman stands on the bank of North Macedonia's Globocica Lake with autumn foliage in the background.
A river gull flies over reflections of a bridge on the Sava River in Belgrade.
A lighted window and a night sky bright with stars are visible as streetlights are switched off in Mykolayiv, Ukraine.
An aerial view of a cemetery during All Saint's Day in Zenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on November 1.
A man talks on the phone in front of a mural that shows Serbian (left) and Russian flags with maps of Kosovo and Crimea, in the northern, Serb-dominated part of the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo.
A priest sprinkles holy water on Russian reservists in the Rostov region who were recruited during the Kremlin's partial mobilization of troops before their departure to the Ukraine war zone.
A woman looks out of a bus window as civilians evacuated from the Russian-controlled Kherson region of Ukraine arrive at a local railway station after Russian-installed officials extended an evacuation order.
Supporters of Imran Khan rally to condemn the shooting of the former prime minister, in Waziribad, Pakistan.
A herd of sheep walks across a field outside Moscow with a chapel in the background.