Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 10th week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (March 3-9)
- By RFE/RL

People buy flowers at a flower market ahead of International Women's Day in Moscow.

A woman walks with a trolley near a damaged cultural center in the Ukrainian town of Bilytske, in the Donetsk region.

The leader of Burma's military junta, Min Aung Hlaing, attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow while on a visit to the Russian capital on March 4.

Cars burn after a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa.

People shop in a store at the Grand Bazaar in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

Ukrainian soldiers fire a self-propelled howitzer toward Russian positions at the front line near the town of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region.

A woman cries holding a portrait of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin after laying flowers at his grave near the Kremlin Wall to mark the 72nd anniversary of his death, on Red Square, Moscow, on March 5.

Vendors sell bread as Afghans prepare to eat during the holy month of Ramadan.

Diana Ana Maria Ion of Romania takes part in the women's long jump event on the first day of the European Athletics Indoor Championships at the Omnisport arena in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

People install an artwork titled Cross Of Peace in front of a destroyed school building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The piece, created by American-Ukrainian artist Sergey Melnikoff and Ukrainian artist Viktor Belchik, is a crucifix made from 20,000 fragments of Russian artillery shells.

Two women sit in the cafe of a contemporary art gallery waiting for the opening of a new exhibition in the center of Moscow.

Trucks wait to cross the closed Torkham border crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan.

People throw eggs at the parliament building during the opening session of this year's spring parliamentary convocation.

Players of the M.R. women's ice hockey teams celebrate during the Iranian women's Ice hockey Premier League Final.