Photos Of The Week #30

A worker spray paints tin cans at a workshop in Kabul.

A couple rides a pedal boat as smoke from nearby forest fires hangs over the Russian city of Yakutsk.

Ukrainian police officers use pepper spray to restrain anti-LGBT protesters attempting to disrupt a pride rally near the headquarters of the presidential office in Kyiv on July 30. 

A bird flies in front of a ruby star atop the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower during sunset in downtown Moscow. 

White storks stand by their nest, which they built on the roof of a house near the town of Ferizaj in Kosovo.  

Ivan Fyodorov, 65, helps Russian firefighters check a 5-kilometer-long trench that was dug to combat a wildfire in the Siberian region of Yakutia. 

Afghan students wait to receive a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at Kabul University on July 29. 

A crowd of people watches rescue operations being carried out after flooding caused by a cloudburst in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on July 28. 

Gardeners work to plant flowers in the colors of the Russian flag on Moscow's Poklonnaya Hill. 

An Iranian nurse checks a COVID-19 patient in a hospital intensive-care ward amid a spike in coronavirus infections in Tehran. 

A woman sits on a bench in front of a shop in Moscow.

Families displaced from districts with fighting between Afghan security forces and the Taliban wait for relief in temporary shelters in Kandahar.

A person on a stand-up paddleboard during sunset at Lake Balaton in Hungary. 

A Polish serviceman taking part in the Three Swords 2021 military exercises near Yavoriv in Ukraine's Lviv region. The exercises are being hosted by Ukraine and also involve the United States, Poland, and Lithuania.
 

Sunlight is occluded by smoke from burning forests in Siberia's Republic of Sakha on July 27. 

Homeless people sleep on a roadside in Karachi, Pakistan. 

Ukrainian Orthodox nuns attend a prayer service on July 27 in Kyiv to mark the 1,033rd anniversary of the Christianization of Kievan Rus. 

A donkey cart is loaded with tires along a roadside in Kabul, Afghanistan. 

An competitor uses a fire extinguisher as he takes part in a relay event during the Fire and Rescue Championship held by the Russian Emergencies Ministry at the Lokomotiv Stadium in Yekaterinburg on July 25. 

A laborer sits beside a road with his tools while waiting for customers to hire him for a day job in Karachi, Pakistan. 

Hot air balloons fly over the Oka River in Russia's Ryazan region. 

Kosovo's Nora Gjakova reacts after defeating Japan's Tsukasa Yoshida in a women's judo bout at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.