Photos Of The Week (August 22-28, 2022)

A young Ukrainian girl shows her mother her new toy during an event dedicated to Ukrainian refugee children in Bucharest.

People sit on a damaged road after heavy monsoon rainfall in Rajanpur district of Punjab Province, Pakistan. Figures from the national disaster agency showed on August 25 that 903 people had died in the floods since June, and over 180,000 were forced to flee their rural homes.

Female fans of the Esteghlal football club cheer during a match between Esteghlal and Mes-e Kerman at Azadi Stadium in Tehran on August 25. Iranian women were allowed to attend a national football championship match for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, in what is being hailed as a historic move.

A man takes a picture of a statue of a hand making a rude gesture with its fingernails painted in the colors of Ukraine's national flag in front of the Russian Embassy in Prague.

The body of an 11-year-old child who was killed in a Russian military strike lies on the ground in Chaplyne in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region.

A man sits with his pet monkey as they seek charity from passersby along a road during monsoon rain in Hyderabad, Pakistan.

An elderly man mourns during a ceremony for the fallen soldiers of Ukraine at the Lychakiv Cemetery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.

Afghan women with mobility impairment resulting from polio take part in a wheelchair basketball match as part of a polio vaccination campaign in Herat. Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only two countries in the world where polio has not been eradicated.

A child enjoys cooling jets as a municipal truck sprays water on Dvortsovaya Square in St. Petersburg as temperatures reached nearly 30 degrees Celsius.

An armored personnel carrier is transported past a sunflower field toward the front line in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.

A  Ukrainian man drives away from his house in Toretsk on August 22 after it was destroyed by shelling. 

Mothers with their newborns ride an elevator down to a bomb shelter organized below a children's hospital during an air-raid alarm in Odesa, Ukraine. The underground shelter provides all necessary services for pregnant women, young mothers, and their babies.

Yuliya Evchenko of Ukraine is seen in action as she competes during the women's high jump at the European Championships in Munich.

A displaced Pakistani family take refuge on a roadside after fleeing their flood-hit home in Nasirabad, a district of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province. Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 777 people across Pakistan over the last two months.

Members of a local community center wear traditional Ukrainian clothing to record an online video message for the country's upcoming Independence Day on August 24 in Andriyivka in eastern Ukraine.

A Ukrainian soldier fires with a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft cannon at a position near a front line in the Kharkiv region on August 24.

People walk among destroyed Russian military equipment on display in Kyiv on August 23. 

An Iranian cleric takes a pedestrian bridge on a street in Tehran.

A woman made up with wounds and Ukrainian colors attends a Freedom March demonstration marking Ukrainian Independence Day in Berlin on August 24.

Police officers stand guard against supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is facing terrorism charges, as he appears in court to extend pre-arrest bail, in Islamabad on August 25.