Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 16th week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's coverage region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Top Shots: Compelling Images From Across Our Region
- By RFE/RL
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Afghan men and children sit atop the remains of a Soviet-era tank on a square in Herat.
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Police officers carry a protester as demonstrators block the entrance of the parliament's garage on the day the Hungarian parliament voted on constitutional amendments targeting the LGBT community, in Budapest.
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Serbian students and their supporters attend a protest in the city of Kraljevo as part of ongoing nationwide anti-government demonstrations.
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Ukrainian soldiers from an anti-drone mobile air defense unit of are seen at their position, in the Donetsk region.
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Kyrylo Illiashenko, 13, sits on a hospital bed after being injured by the April 13 Russian missile strike on Sumy, Ukraine, while trying to help others evacuate a burning bus that he later exited through a shattered window.
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Ukrainian soldiers prepare a T-80 tank captured from Russian troops in the Donetsk region.
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Amputee war veterans of the FC Nezlamni soccer club train at the stadium in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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A Ukrainian soldier walks at the site of a Russian missile strike in Sumy, Ukraine.
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Relatives, friends, and other mourners, including the grandmother (center) of Maksym Martynenko, 11, attend his funeral and that of his parents. The family died in the Russian missile strike on Sumy on April 13, which killed 35 people.
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The sun sets behind a belltower of the Kremlin in Moscow.
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A woman walks a mural on a street in Moscow.
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Protesters demonstrate on the Chain Bridge in Budapest after the Hungarian parliament voted on constitutional amendments targeting the LGBT community.
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A woman selling flowers and vegetables waits for customers at the entrance of a subway station in the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
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A Pakistani farmer harvests wheat in a field on the outskirts of Lahore.
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People look at a damaged Pakistani police bus parked in a security compound following a bomb explosion in the Mastung district of the restive Balochistan Province.
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right) speaks during a meeting with government officials in Tehran.
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Russian journalists Sergei Karelin (left), Konstantin Gabov (second left), Antonina Favorskaya (second right), and Artem Kriger attend a court hearing in Moscow on April 15. They were all subsequently sentenced by a Moscow court to 5 1/2 years in prison each for their activities linked to the late opposition leader Aleksei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), which Russian authorities have designated as an "extremist organization."
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An Odesa resident stands in the backyard of his house, which was damaged during a Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian port city.
