Week in pictures: 16 - 22 April 2022 - BBC News

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Tanya Los and her husband Valery survey the damage to their house caused by a rocket in the village of Mala Tomachka, south of Zaporizhzhia, a city in south-eastern Ukraine, on 19 April 2022
ED JONES / AFP

Tanya Los and her husband, Valery, survey the damage to their house caused by a rocket in the village of Mala Tomachka, in south-eastern Ukraine. Russian Maj Gen Rustam Minnekayev said Russia intended to seize southern Ukraine and to open a route to the separatist region of Transnistria in Moldova.

A worker cleans a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Moscow Square in front of the House of Soviets in St Petersburg, Russia, on 21 April 2022
OLGA MALTSEVA / AFP

A worker cleans a statue of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, in front of the House of Soviets in Moscow Square, St Petersburg, Russia.

A woman walks past official campaign posters of presidential election candidates President Emmanuel Macron and Marine le Pen in Paris, on 19 April 2022
GONZALO FUENTES / REUTERS

A woman walks past official campaign posters in Paris, showing French presidential election candidates President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, leader of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National) party. Voters will decide on Sunday which will lead their country.

Environmental protesters in front of the New York Times building in New York, US, on 21 April 2022, the day before Earth Day.
ERIK PENDZICH / SHUTTERSTOCK

A day before Earth Day, demonstrators protest in front of the New York Times building in the US, against the use of fossil-fuel adverts in the media.

A butterfly at the drought-affected Los Laureles reservoir, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Earth Day ,22 April 2022
ORLANDO SIERRA / AFP

A butterfly rests on dry earth at the drought-affected Los Laureles reservoir in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Earth Day 2022.

An Easter Bunny stands next to White House press secretary Jen Psaki as she delivers the daily briefing in the Brady briefing room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on 18 April 2022
DREW ANGERER / GETTY IMAGES

An Easter Bunny stands next to White House press secretary Jen Psaki as she delivers the daily briefing in Washington.

Wild bluebells in the Hallerbos, Halle, near Brussels, Belgium, on 19 April 2022
YVES HERMAN / REUTERS

Wild bluebells carpet the ground in the Hallerbos, also known as the Blue Forest, in Halle, near Brussels, in Belgium.

Leticia Edwards, Westminster Abbey Marshall, looks out from the main nave roof, near the Hawksmoor Towers of Westminster Abbey, in central London, on 20 April 2022
DOMINIC LIPINSKI / PA MEDIA

Westminster Abbey marshal Leticia Edwards looks out from the main nave roof of the abbey, in central London. The roof is to be opened to the public for the first time, for tours, as part of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

An aircraft flies above Basra, in southern Iraq, silhouetted against the waning gibbous moon on 18 April 2022
HUSSEIN FALEH / AFP

An aircraft flies above Iraq's southern city of Basra, silhouetted against the waning gibbous moon.

Charity volunteers hand out food packages for the Suhur meal in Idlib, north-west Syria, on 19 April 2022, ahead of fasting for Ramadan
OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP

Volunteers from the Violet Org charity hand out food packages for the Suhur meal, to be consumed before the next day's fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in the rebel-held city of Idlib in north-west Syria.