Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the ninth week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Top Shots: Compelling Images From Our Region
- By RFE/RL
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Afghanistan's Mohammad Nabi is hit by the ball during a one-day international cricket match against England in Lahore, Pakistan.
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Ukrainian firefighters tackle a blaze at an industrial facility following a Russian drone attack on the Kyiv region.
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Polish soldiers deployed to guard their country's border with Belarus salute Poland's defense minister, Władysław Kasiniak-Kamys, who paid them a visit on February 26.
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Milorad Dodik, the leader of Bosnia-Herzegovina's Serb-led entity Republika Srpska, addresses his supporters in Banja Luka after a court in Sarajevo sentenced him to one year in prison for defying orders by the country's international peace envoy .
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Ukrainian firefighters work at a site of a Russian drone strike in the Kyiv region.
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A woman walks alongside a wall of the St. Iveron Convent in Ukraine's Russian-occupied Donetsk region which has been heavily damaged by artillery and gun fire.
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Afghan Kochi nomad girls push wheelbarrows as they fetch water along a street in the Daman district of Kandahar Province.
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A woman walks amid a display of Russian state flags installed on a square in central Moscow on February 24, the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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A Ukrainian woman cries at a memorial to her country's fallen soldiers on Kyiv's Independence Square on February 24.
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Local residents attend a memorial ceremony under a destroyed bridge in Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on the anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
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Ukrainian soldiers and others gather at a mass grave memorial on February 24 during a commemorative event in Bucha for those who died in a Russian massacre in the town northwest of Kyiv three years ago.
