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Photos Of The Week (August 19-25)

A competitor jumps from a 22-meter-high bridge during an annual high-diving competition near the town of Gjakova in Kosovo. 

Ukrainian soldiers of the 148th Separate Artillery Brigade prepare a M777 howitzer to fire toward Russian positions at the front line in the Donetsk region.
 

A boy looks out the window of a bus during evacuations in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine.

A woman evacuated from the Kursk region bordering Ukraine reacts as she waits to receive humanitarian aid delivered by the Russian Red Cross in downtown Kursk city, Russia.

A school classroom in the village of Yunakivka is gutted after being hit by two Russian glide bombs overnight in Ukraine's Sumy region. 

An Afghan farmer places fresh grapes inside a drying tent in the Panjwai district of Kandahar Province. 

A Pakistani policeman wades across monsoon floodwaters in Lahore. 

Locals view a bomb crater following a Russian missile strike in a village outside of Kyiv.

Locals and people evacuated from the Kursk region bordering Ukraine attend a service at the Assumption-Nikitsky Church in Kursk, Russia.

Hungarian Air Force Gripen fighter jets paint the sky in the colors of the Hungarian flag during celebrations to mark the country's national day on August 20.

Military caps filled with bullets are seen during an exercise of the 41st Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Local resident Natalya stands amid the debris of her house hit by shelling, which local Russian-installed authorities called a Ukrainian military strike, in Makyivka in Ukraine's Donetsk region.
 

Local residents stand next to a burning house the day after a missile attack in Myrnograd, Donetsk region.
 

BULGARIA -- A supermoon, known as the blue moon and "Sturgeon Moon", rises over the Alexander Nevsky cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria, August 19, 2024.

A young refugee girl from Ukraine sleeps on bags of clothing in the northwestern Hungarian village of Kocs. She is part of a group of about 120 refugees from western Ukraine evicted from a privately run shelter after the Hungarian government decided to continue supporting only refugees from areas directly affected by military operations. 
 

 Burqa-clad Afghan women walk on a road in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Ukrainian rescuers work to extinguish a fire in a forest after shelling in the city of Bogodukhiv, Kharkiv region, northeastern Ukraine.

A veteran pays his respect at a makeshift memorial for fallen Ukrainian soldiers on Ukrainian Independence Day in Kyiv.
 

A father hugs his daughter, his other children nearby, as they wait for evacuation in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine.
 

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy welcomes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kyiv.

A Ukrainian woman pauses while overcome with emotion as the town of Myrnohrad, Donetsk region, is evacuated.