Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 21st week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's coverage region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (May 19-25)
- By RFE/RL
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An Afghan farmer harvests wheat in the Arghandab district in Kandahar Province.
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Emergency workers in Kyiv extinguish a fire in the rubble of a private house that was destroyed in a rocket strike amid a massive Russian air attack on Ukraine on May 25.
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A son says goodbye and kisses his mother as Ukrainian police officers evacuate her from the frontline town of Pokrovsk in the war-torn Donetsk region.
4
IndianArmy soldiers stand guard near the Line of Control between Pakistan and India in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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Spanish police officers work near the body of Andriy Portnov, a lawyer and former Ukrainian presidential adviser who was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen outside a school in Madrid on May 21.
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Livestock vendors display their bulls to customers at a cattle market in Hyderabad in Pakistan's Sindh Province ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for a vote in the parliament in Budapest on withdrawing Hungary from the International Criminal Court.
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An Afghan vendor holds a parrot for sale at a bird market in Kabul
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A cat sits outside a residence observing other felines in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
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Pakistani Rangers (left) and Indian Border Security Force personnel perform the Attar-Wagah border ceremony at the frontier between the two countries on the outskirts of Amritsar.
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People gather outside the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow during a memorial ceremony for Russian ballet choreographer Yury Grigorovich, who recently died aged 98.
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Metropolitan Epifaniy I, the head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, sprays holy water on military chaplains during a joint prayer for victory and for fair peace for Ukraine, in St. Michael's Cathedral in Kyiv.
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A man awakens during a heatwave that forced residents to seek shelter outdoors in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
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A Ukrainian prisoner of war embraces his wife as he returns home following the first stage of a prisoner swap with Russia, which began on May 23.
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A woman reacts as she visits the grave of her relative at a cemetery in Lviv as Ukrainians mark their country's Day of Heroes on May 23, a day which commemorates those who died for Ukraine's independence.
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Iranian director Jafar Panahi holds up the Palme d'Or award he won for his movie It Was Just An Accident at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
