Photos Of The Week (December 16-22)

A Ukrainian woman holds her cats amid an evacuation of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk. 

People take shelter in a metro station during an air-raid alert in Kyiv.

A vendor sells secondhand shoes at a roadside market in Kandahar, Afghanistan. 

Bosnia-Herzegovina's 172-meter-high Avaz Twist Tower peaks through a dense layer of fog and smog in Sarajevo. 

A woman passes Christmas decorations in the center of the Moldovan capital, Chisinau. 

A seagull flies by as two others sit on an electric light on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea in the Iranian port city of Bandar Anzali. 

A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in Peshawar, Pakistan. 

Ukrainian scouts take part in a peace ceremony at Kyiv's main railway station.  

Contestants compete in a heat of the women's 200-meter backstroke competition at the World Swimming Championships in Budapest. 

A boy plays in front of riot police trucks outside the parliament building in the restive Georgian capital, Tbilisi. 

A steam train festooned with seasonal decorations moves along a railway in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. 

A child rides on a merry-go-round at Christmas fair in the Romanian capital, Bucharest. 

Kyrgyz soldiers stand guard as people gather in front of an illuminated Christmas tree and other decorations on the central Ala-Too Square in Bishkek. 

A tiger is seen in scratches an itch in Kyiv's city zoo. 

An opposition supporter attends a protest in front of Georgia's parliament building in Tbilisi. 

Akhmadzhon Kurbonov, an Uzbek citizen suspected of involvement in the killing of General Igor Kirillov in Moscow, is escorted to a courtroom at the Basmanny District Court on December 19.

A Ukrainian soldier of the Khyzhak Brigade launches a drone at a position in a front line near the town of Toretsk, Ukraine.