Photos Of The Week No. 15

Pakistani police destroy an opium poppy crop about 100 kilometers from Peshawar. (AFP/Abdul Majeed)

People walk near the Ferris wheel in the abandoned city of Prypyat, near Chernobyl, Ukraine. Ukraine will mark the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl tragedy on April 26. (epa-EFE/Oleg Petrasyuk)

Bullet and shrapnel holes are seen on a mural after shelling by Russia-backed separatists in Avdiyivka in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

A man exercises during a sunset over the Finnish Gulf coast in St. Petersburg, Russia. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)

A Pakistani boy reads verses from the Koran at a mosque during the fasting month of Ramadan, amid the coronavirus pandemic, in Peshawar, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Bilawal Arbab)

A Romanian worker of the PUBLISIND trade-union federation fires a flare during a protest in front of Romanian government headquarters in Bucharest. PUBLISIND represents workers in the fields of public administration, social assistance, penitentiaries, environment, and justice. Hundreds of people from all over the country gathered to protest against the economic measures adopted by the current government amid the coronavirus pandemic. (epa-EFE/Robert Ghement)

A shoeshine boy waits for customers in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)

A man surfs in Ussuri Bay, near Vladivostok, Russia. (TASS/Yury Smityuk)

Supporters of the Islamist Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) political party run for cover amid clashes with police during a protest against the arrest of their leader in Lahore on April 13. (Reuters)

A clergyman near the Iranian city of Qom looks through binoculars on April 13 for the new moon that signals the start of the holy month of Ramadan. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

A man cleans a mosque ahead of the holy month of Ramadan amid the coronavirus pandemic in Peshawar, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Bilawal Arbab)

A woman carries buckets across a street in the town of Tara in Russia's Omsk region. (Reuters/Alexey Malgavko)

 A day laborer sleeps on his cart while waiting for customers on the first day of Ramadan in Kabul on April 13. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

A man walks in front of a large mural of the first Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in Odintsovo, near Moscow. (epa-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky)

Spectators watch a projection of Yuri Gagarin's portrait to mark the 60th anniversary of the first human space flight in St. Petersburg, Russia, on April 12. (Reuters/Anton Vaganov)

Flames and smoke rise during a fire at the Nevskaya Manufaktura factory in central St. Petersburg, Russia, on April 12. (Reuters/Anton Vaganov)

A Ukrainian soldier is seen at fighting positions on the line of separation from Kremlin-backed separatists in the eastern Donetsk region. (Reuters/Oleksandr Klymenko)