A serviceman patrols near anti-tank constructions as blooming tulips are seen amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in central Kyiv, Ukraine. Reuters/Gleb Garanich
A cat lies on a chair at the entrance to an apartment building in the southern port city of Mariupol. The note on the door reads “People live here”. Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko
Lotto Soudal's Belgian Arnaud De Lie (2nd-R) and Arkea Samsic's British Daniel McLay (R) crash during the 161 km between Dunkirk and Aniche, first stage of the "4 jours de Dunkerque" (Four days of Dunkirk) cycling race, in Aniche northern France.
Gen. Christopher Cavoli, the current head of US Army forces in Europe and Africa has been nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as the top US general in Europe as head of US European Command, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced Tuesday.
Tanks preparing for a rehearsal of the Victory Day parade on April 28.
May 9, known as "Victory Day" inside Russia, commemorates the country's defeat of the Nazis in 1945.
Ukrainian civilians and resistance fighters holed up in the steel works of Mariupol are facing "nonstop" bombardment and running dangerously low on supplies. Svyatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of the Ukrainian Azov Regiment, says if they run out of food, they'll be "catching birds."
Swedish armored vehicles participate in a military exercise called "Cold Response 2022" of around 30,000 troops from NATO member nations along with Finland and Sweden in Norway on March 25.
Britain is to supply dozens of quadcopter drones that can carry heavy equipment to the Ukrainian front line as part of a new £300 million package of military aid announced by Boris Johnson
The sale of Chelsea has hit a serious obstacle over fears that Russian-born owner Roman Abramovich is attempting to renege on his promise to write off a £1.6 billion debt
Yes. ………“Patrushev is an outright villain. He is no better than Vladimir Putin. Moreover, he is a more cunning, and I would say, more insidious person than Vladimir Putin. If he comes to power, Russians’ problems will only multiply,” the owner of the Telegram channel which claimed about Putin’s cancer surgery said……
Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
Svitlana comforts her two young sons as they shelter in a kindergarten after escaping the frontline village of Kyselivka, now under Russian control.
Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images
Vehicles are on fire at an oil depot after missiles struck the facility in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Makiivka, 15 kms east of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.
A Russian Su-35S combat aircraft and a Tu-95ms strategic bomber fly in formation above a church during a rehearsal for a military parade marking the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II in Moscow. Reuters
Russia agreed to release former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed in exchange for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the United States. Reed was serving a nine-year jail term for endangering the lives of two policemen while drunk on a visit to Moscow in 2019.
SISTERLY LOVE: Sofia (above) and Anna mourn near the coffin of their father, Ukrainian serviceman Ruslan Borovyk, during his funeral ceremony at St Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, in Kyiv, Ukraine. The serviceman was killed in a battle in eastern Ukraine. Photograph: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA
Kira Obedinsky, 12, was taken to Russian-controlled Donetsk after being injured in a blast in Mariupol that killed her father. She has been discharged from a children’s hospital in Kyiv to start a new life after being reunited with her grandfather.
Kharkiv, where hundreds of children have been sheltering underground for months, trying to survive in a city under constant attack. A metro station is now their home, school, playground and refuge.
Moscow, Russia
Military vehicles move along Tverskaya Street during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade marking the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in the second world war
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Leeds, England
A 1911 tiny copy of the Bible is displayed at Leeds city library. The replica of a so-called Chained Bible is not much bigger than a £1 coin but contains both testaments printed on 876 gossamer-thin India paper pages, which can only be read with a magnifying glass. Librarians are unsure as to its origins as it only resurfaced when the library decided to do a comprehensive survey during lockdown closures
Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA