War in Ukraine

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  1. Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the External Church Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, addresses the media following an extraordinary session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church over the Ukrainian Church dispute in Moscow on September 14, 2018.

  2. Two men in military khaki use a bit of kit that is on a stand

  3. Rescuers work at the site of the apartment buildings hit during the Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine November 8, 2025.

  4. Piece to camera from BBC Budapest correspondent Nick Thorpe

  5. US President Donald Trump in a navy suit with a yellow tie stands and points to Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban in a navy suit with red tie as they stand outside the White House

  6. On stage actors in military fatigues hold a Ukrainian flag under spotlights. The heads of audience members can be seen in the foreground.

  7. Dmitry Kurashov, who has short dark hair and is wearing a black jumper, stands in the dock with his arms folded, looking down, surrounded by Ukrainian guards.

  8. Members of the White Angel unit of Ukrainian police officers stand in front of a destroyed building in Pokrovsk

  9. South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa wears a dark blazer and red tie.

  10. Sophia wears camouflage military uniform and sits in a podcast studio

  11. A view of destroyed buildings in Pokrovsk with the logo of Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence in the top left corner

  12. Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone speaks during a BBC interview

  13. Artillerymen of the 152nd Separate Jaeger Brigade fire an M114 self-propelled howitzer towards Russian troops near Pokrovsk

  14. Putin sitting in front of a table with tea and cakes, flanked by veterans

  15. Diana Loginova sits with her head on her clasped hands in a court in St Petersburg, wearing glasses with transparent frames under her blonde hair

  16. A man sits behind glass in the dock in court, his face pixelated.

  17. A gunner turns away from a canon as it fires a shell.

  18. A man walks around a market as a fire burns at the site of a missile strike

  19. Flames are seen next to burnt out vehicles and a bombed building. Grey smoke billows into a a cloudy sky.

  20. Oleksandr Volobuev carries a young child out of a kindergarten hit by a Russian drone

  21. Trump looking at Xi, their faces quite close, with the flags of their countries behind them.

  22. Custody shots of Jake Reeves, left, and Dylan Earl

  23. Zelensky and Starmer at podiums, with flags in the background

  24. Sir Keir Starmer, wearing a blue suit, shaking hands with Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky, draped in all-black, outside the door of Number 10 Downing Street