Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 19th week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's coverage region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (May 5-11)
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Residents of Hyderabad, Pakistan, celebrate after the announcement of a cease-fire between Islamabad and New Delhi after weeks of exchanges over the disputed Kashmir region.
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Fireworks explode behind the Novodevichy monastery during celebrations on May 9, the day on which Russia marks the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping watch Russian soldiers marching past during a flower-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on May 9.
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A resident reacts in front of his apartment building heavily damaged the day before by a Russian air strike as rescuers try to find his mother under debris in the frontline town of Kostyantynivka in Ukraine's Donetsk region on May 8.
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A rescue worker helps an injured elderly woman evacuated from a building that was heavily damaged by a Russian strike in the Sumy region.
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Afghan refugees unload their belongings from a truck upon arriving back from Pakistan in Kandahar Province.
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A child plays under a large Romanian flag during a pro-EU rally in Bucharest on May 9 ahead of the second round of a controversial presidential election rerun.
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Russian service members march in columns on the day of a rehearsal for a military parade in Moscow to mark the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
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A Ukrainian soldier kisses a hand of a woman after returning from captivity in a POW exchange in Ukraine on May 6.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and first lady Olena Zelenska attend a ceremony to commemorate the fallen of World War II as part of the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in Kyiv on May 8.
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A Ukrainian soldier operates a first-person view (FPV) near Russian positions not far from the front line in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
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Afghan wrestlers compete during a traditional wrestling competition at a field in the Arghandab district of Kandahar Province.
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A handout picture released by the Houthi-affiliated branch of the Yemeni News Agency SABA on May 6 shows a firefighter truck extinguishing a blaze on a burning airplane at Sanaa international airport after Israeli military warplanes struck Yemen's rebel-held capital in retaliation for a missile attack by the Iran-backed Houthis on Israel's main airport.
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Local residents prepare to evacuate after Pakistani artillery shelling in Lagama village in Uri, about 100 kilometers from Srinagar, in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region, on May 9.
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Students take part in an emergency simulation drill as part of the nationwide civil defense mock drill at a school in Kolkata, India, on May 7 as border tensions with Pakistan surge.
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Participants carry portraits of people, including Red Army soldiers and veterans, during a march in St. Petersburg on Victory Day on May 9, when Russia marks the anniversary of the defeat over Nazi Germany in World War Two.
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A pigeon flies in front of Soviet-era bas-relief at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in World War II.
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A woman stands outside a house destroyed by Pakistani artillery shelling in the village of Salamabad village in the Indian-administered part of the disputed Kashmir region.
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A Kyrgyz soldier looks on during a military parade in Bishkek to commemorate Victory Day in World War II.
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Serbian students stand in silence in Belgrade to commemorate the 16 victims killed after a railway concrete canopy fell in November and to demand an immediate snap election after leading months of anti-corruption demonstrations, in Belgrade
