A boy stands on a wall beside an UN security officer who is supporting a MINUSMA operation in Gao. In 2012, Islamist radicals linked to al-Qaeda, hijacked an uprising by ethnic Tuareg people and went...

Ukrainian soldiers examine a handgun, salvaged from the Russian soldier's backpack found in an tank abandoned in the Seversky Donets river at the scene of a failed pontoon crossing. Earlier in May 202...

The half buried body of a Russian soldier lies in the dirt on the banks of the Seversky Donets river, at the scene of a failed Russian pontoon bridge crossing. Earlier in May 2022, Ukrainian forces ha...

The half buried body of a Russian soldier lies in the dirt on the banks of the Seversky Donets river, at the scene of a failed Russian pontoon bridge crossing. Earlier in May 2022, Ukrainian forces ha...

An armed border guard stands beside an unfinished section of the newly built border wall erected between Poland and Belarus. In the autumn of 2021 there were clashes between Polish police and migrant...

A Ukrainian soldier examines an abandoned Russian tank part submerged in the Seversky Donets river. Earlier in May 2022, Ukrainian forces had inflicted heavy losses on a Russian battalion at this loca...

A Ukrainian soldier crouches near an abandoned Russian tank on the banks of the Seversky Donets river. Earlier in May 2022, Ukrainian forces had inflicted heavy losses on a Russian battalion at this l...

Ukrainian soldiers walk past destroyed Russian armoured vehicles in a forested area near the Seversky Donets river. Earlier in May 2022, Ukrainian forces had inflicted heavy losses on a Russian battal...

Ukrainian soldiers ride on top of an armoured fighting vehicle, somewhere between Pokrovsk and Kramatorsk, in the Donbas region.

First Lieutenant, Semen Salatenko, walks past a camouflaged Ukrainian armoured fighting vehicle at a frontline position near Donetsk city.

Ukrainian soldiers walk back to their positions in a frontline area near the city of Donetsk.

Yuriy, a commander of an artillery section, part of the 93rd Brigade of Ukraine's Ground Forces, directs fire towards Russian positions near the city of Izium.

Ukrainian soldiers walk back to their positions in a frontline area near the city of Donetsk.

Ukrainian soldiers smok under a camouflaged shelter at a frontline position near Donetsk city.

A destroyed Russian armoured vehicle sits in a field in the recently recaptured village of Novopil.