Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 41st week of 2022 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our photo gallery archive.
Photos Of The Week (October 10-16)
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Parents of recently killed Ukrainian soldier, Ruslan Zhumaboev, stand next to his grave at a cemetery during Ukraine Defenders Day in Kharkiv on October 14.
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Female Afghan students stand in line after they arrive for entrance exams at Kabul University.
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A twilight view of residential buildings in Baikonur, Kazakhstan
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A woman helps a man after they were both injured during a Russian missile strike in Kyiv on October 10.
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A worker prepares a traditional cap locally called a "pakol" at his shop in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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Men run from the scene of a Russian military strike as cars burn in central Kyiv on October 10.
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A rescuer carries two dogs outside the damaged 101 Tower skyscraper in Kyiv following Russian shelling on October 10.
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A boy performs a dance called "dhamal" with others during the celebrations to mark the birth anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad in Karachi, Pakistan, on October 9.
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A rescuer takes a break at the site of a residential building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, on October 10.
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People take selfies in front of a Kyiv artwork depicting the Crimea Bridge on fire.
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Protesters hold up flares in the Ukrainian colors outside the the Russian Embassy in Warsaw after Russia's wave of missile strikes in Ukraine on October 10.
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A woman cuts her hair during a rally in support of Iranian women in Pristina on October 12.
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Neighbors help wheelchair-bound Rimma Tsykalenko, 65, return to her home after receiving her monthly pension payment in the frontline town of Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region.
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Oleksandra, 67, tends to her husband, Mykola, 66, who has lung cancer, beside a pot placed on their bed to collect leaking water from a damaged roof by shelling at their home without basic services in Bakhmut on October 11.
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Relatives and residents take part in a protest on October 11 with the body of a school-bus driver the day after he was shot dead in an attack on his bus in Mingora, Pakistan. Up to 2,000 girls and boys walked out of school in protest of the attack.
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The bow of the Soviet K-3 Leninsky Komsomol submarine is transported from the pier to a museum in the city of Kronstadt, outside St. Petersburg, Russia, on October 12.
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Ballooning enthusiasts fly their hot-air balloons in the sky near the settlement of Garni in the Kotayk region of Armenia during the Discover Armenia From The Sky international ballooning festival, with Mount Ararat seen in the background, on October 12.
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A man fishes on the Dnieper River after several Russian strikes hit the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv on October 10.