War in Ukraine

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  1. Two white ambulances, in a car park, with four people standing by it, three are holding a flag. Two women have flowers on their head.

  2. A man wearing a jacket stands in front of a building with cars parked behind him. Snow can be seen on the road where he is standing.

  3. First Lady Melania Trump photographed during a press conference inside the White House

  4. A smiling Alexander Stubb is adjusting the button on his blue suit sat in Oval Office alongside a laughing Donald Trump who is wearing a blue suit and red tie.

  5. Ukrainian soldiers, in camouflage military clothing, stand in a trench during a training exercise. Behind them, more personnel are standing in an otherwise empty, brown field.

  6. Ukrainian emergencies personnel tackle a fire in a house in the Kyiv region after overnight Russian strikes

  7. Serhiy Beskrestnov is a middle-aged man wearing a khaki uniform. He is holding a drone with a wingspan of just under a metre and a half. It looks quite roughly put together - crudely constructed. Serhiy is looking down a barrel of the camera.

  8. Satellite image shows evidence of Russians using a BBC reporter's childhood home in southern Zaporizhzhia oblast

  9. A crater next to a sports complex building destroyed by what local authorities called a recent Ukrainian missile attack in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict, in the settlement of Maslova Pristan in the Belgorod Region, Russia October 8, 2025

  10. A number of rescuers in protective clothing can be seen working around a destroyed house. They are surrounded by rubble and are clearing away bricks and other pieces of debris.

  11. A train hit by a drone strike sits damaged at the railway station in Shostka. A group of people stands on the central platform in the distance.

  12. A black and white portrait photo of Antoni Lallican

  13. A satellite being launched into the space by a Space X rocket on a blue clear day.

  14. An aerial view shows the oil tanker Boracay off the coast of Saint-Nazaire

  15. A composite image showing a Ukrainian pilot using a drone. He is imposed over an image of a n oil refinery from which smoke is rising after a blast.

  16. An aerial picture which shows a large tanker ship. It is white and burgundy. There are two masked soldiers in camouflage on the ship which is in the middle of the ocean. The name of the ship, Boracay, is clearly marked on it.

  17. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy holds a letter he received from Britain's Anne, Princess Royal, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, at St. Sophia's Cathedral in Kyiv, September 30, 2025.

  18. Danish Defense shows the gas leaking at Nord Stream 2 seen from the Danish F-16 interceptor on Bornholm, Denmark on September 27, 2022

  19. Ukrainian firefighters tackle a blaze at a house destroyed in a Russian drone attack in the village of Chernechchyna. Photo: 30 September 2025

  20. Andrii Andriichuk, a career criminal turned soldier, shows off his Knight's Cross medal

  21. Two people sit on a bench against the backdrop of a destroyed building

  22. An airport terminal with a black roof is pictured from above, with a series of black vehicles parked in front of the building. The airport control tower can be seen in the distance.

  23. Rescuers work among the rubble following a Russian strike on a residential area in Kyiv

  24. Firefighters stand amid smouldering rubble with several destroyed buildings in the background.