Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 39th week of 2024 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (September 23-29, 2024)
- By RFE/RL
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A drone explodes in the night sky over the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
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A Ukrainian military medic treats an injured soldier in the Donetsk region.
3
Boatmen work on Moscow's Great Palace Pond with the Church of the Holy Trinity in Ostankino in the background.
4
Iranian worshippers burn a U.S. flag during an anti-Israeli rally after Friday Prayers in Tehran.
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An ornithologist takes a picture of a spotted flycatcher in the marshlands of salt fields in Ulcinj, Montenegro.
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Volunteers clean up the banks of Badovac Lake during an operation to mark World Cleanup Day in Badovce, near Pristina, on September 20.
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A banner honoring the dozens of people who were killed in a coal-mine explosion in eastern Iran has been erected over a street in the country's capital, Tehran
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An injured woman is seen next to her apartment building, which was damaged by a Russian air strike, in Zaporizhzhya in southeastern Ukraine.
9
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (signing a shell in the center of the picture) visits the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania while on a trip to the United States.
10
An Afghan girl harvests cotton in a field in the Daman district of Kandahar Province.
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A couple looks at posters depicting deceased Ukrainian soldiers from the Azov Brigade at an open-air exhibition in Kyiv.
12
A Russian soldier in an undisclosed location fires an anti-tank missile at Ukrainian forces.
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A Russian gymnast poses for a photo on Red Square in front of the Kremlin's Spasskaya tower and St. Basil's Cathedral in downtown Moscow.
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Local residents walk past a heavily damaged building following a Russian strike in the city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine's Donetsk region.
