Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the sixth week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (February 3-9)
- By RFE/RL
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Ukrainian POWs gesture after being freed in a prisoner swap with Russia on February 5.
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A Ukrainian soldier stares out of the entrance hatch of a Leopard 1A5 tank near the front line in the Donetsk region.
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Supporters of the ruling Vetevendosje (Self-determination) party wave Albanian national flags during the party's closing election campaign rally in Pristina on February 7.
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Bulgarian border police officers play with a dog as they patrol their country's frontier with Turkey.
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Ukrainian soldiers take part in a training exercise near the frontline city of Pokrovsk.
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A man in Sofia searches for the names of relatives on a monument dedicated to victims of the communist regime in Bulgaria.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping (center left) and his Pakistani counterpart, Asif Ali Zardari, walk in front of a guard of honor during a welcome ceremony for the latter's visit to China on February 5.
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Ukrainian security officers and others check a heavily damaged building at the site of a missile attack in the city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region.
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Pakistani Navy soldiers carry the national flags of participating countries during the opening ceremony for an international maritime exercise in Karachi.
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Relatives, friends, and comrades attend a funeral ceremony in Kharkiv for Anton Spitsyn, a Ukrainian soldier who was killed fighting Russian troops.
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Visitors stand in front of an artwork depicting U.S. President Donald Trump (left), Russian President Vladimir Putin (center), and Chinese President Xi Jinping at an exhibition titled Yalta 2.0 in the occupied Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.
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A statue of former U.S. President Bill Clinton is covered by snow at a boulevard named after him in the Kosovar capital, Pristina.
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Residents ride bicycles near a car destroyed by Russian military strikes in the embattled Ukrainian frontline city of Pokrovsk.
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A man casts his ballot as part of the general elections at a polling station in Pristina on February 9.
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Pashtun Qami Jirga members and supporters protested in Khyber district, northwest Pakistan, on February 9 demanding the release of their leader, Malak Naseer Kuki Khel, and other political prisoners.
