Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 23rd week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's coverage region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (June 2-8)
- By RFE/RL
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Fire and smoke rise from the site where a Russian missile struck a residential area in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on June 7.
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Rescuers provide assistance to one of several dozen civilians who were hurt during an explosion of a glide bomb that Russia dropped on Kharkiv.
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An explosion is seen after a Russian air strike on Kyiv on June 6.
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A boy yawns as other Muslims offer Eid al-Adha prayers at the Moscow Cathedral Mosque during celebrations in Moscow on June 6.
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People rest in a metro station, being used as a bomb shelter, during a Russian drones attack in Kyiv.
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A man looks from a window of a residential multistory building damaged after a Russian drone strike on Kyiv.
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A police officer evacuates a woman from her house in the frontline town of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine.
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Firefighters work at the site of a building hit by a Russian drone strike in Kharkiv.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during the 36th anniversary of the death of the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, at Khomeini's shrine in southern Tehran.
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A street musician plays music on a sidewalk in northern Tehran.
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Pigeons fly outside the Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque during the Eid al-Adha prayer in Kabul on June 7.
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Siblings celebrate Eid al-Adha with a camel ride through the bustling streets of the Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan.
