War in Ukraine

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  1. Smoke rises over military training ground

  2. A Belarusian serviceman stands holding a rifle. There are a Belarusian and a Russian flag in the background

  3. A Romanian Air Force F-16 fighter jet flying through blue sky

  4. US President Donald Trump

  5. Poland's Secretary of State Marcin Bosacki holds a photo showing a house with a very damaged roof.

  6. Prince Harry poses for a photo with a Ukrainian soldier and a small girl.

  7. An older gentleman stands dressed in a brown checkered blazer and a dark shirt—his attire suggests a blend of tradition and practicality. His hands grip on the handlebars of what appears to be a bicycle. Behind him is a white utility vehicle with a metal cage structure at the front. It looks like it’s designed for transporting goods—or possibly animals. The background is lush with greenery—dense foliage and trees that suggest a countryside or semi-rural environment. The paved surface underfoot implies a transitional space: not quite wild, not fully urban.

  8. Smoke rises over the skyline in a town with several apartment blocks. The sky is pink and orange.

  9. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in Kyiv

  10. A police officer stands out of focus in the foreground. In the background, people wearing dark clothes and blue latex gloves walk in a hole in a damaged white house, the wooden roof beams exposed.

  11. Путин и дроны

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  13. Polish soldiers stand in front of a house destroyed with blown out roof

  14. Polish military and drone experts inspect the crash site of a Russian drone in the village of Wohyń, eastern Poland. Photo: 10 September 2025

  15. Stylised image showing a map of Ukraine overlaid with images of tanks and a soldier holding a shoulder launcher

  16. Latvian, Spanish and Nato flags flutter in front of an air defence system during military exercises on a field in Latvia.

  17. Russia's Vladimir Putin and US president Donald Trump

  18. People watching container ship arriving in the mouth of the harbour at Kochi, Kerala, India.

  19. Roman Melnik sits in a black t shirt on a sofa with a grin on his face, staring into the camera

  20. Ukriane's main government building in Kyiv is burning following a Russian air attack. Photo: 7 September 2025

  21. A photo posted by Ukraine's state emergency service DSNS showing a destroyed postal service vehicle in Yarova, Donetsk region

  22. The outgoing UK chief of the defence staff, Adm Sir Tony Radakin, explains on Political Thinking with Nick Robinson.

  23. Sarah Rainsford wearing a hard hat in destroyed building