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(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1276771\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1276771\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/10GettyImages-1398321119.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" /> A person observes a memorial for the shooting victims outside of Tops market on May 20, 2022 in Buffalo, New York. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1276780\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1276780\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/11GettyImages-1398130329.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" /> Irpin resident Halyna (surname withheld) explains how she lived throughout the Russian invasion hiding in a cellar. She and neighbours are still living in their destroyed apartments which have no electricity amenities or roof. 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(Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1276783\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1276783\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/13GettyImages-1398849167.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" /> Forget-me-not flowers painted around bullet and shrapnel holes by Canadian artist Ivanka Siolkowsky in the war-torn suburb of Bucha on May 23, 2022 in Bucha, Ukraine. Silolkowsky is of Ukrainian descent and initially left Toronto at the beginning of the Russian invasion to help with refugees at the Polish border eventually volunteering to help in Bucha. She painted her first flower around a bullet hole after speaking to a resident who said “The bullet holes in my fence remind me of all that I’ve lost\" which gave her the idea. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1276786\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1276786\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/15GettyImages-1399232548.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" /> An artwork of a bird is sprayed on the side of a destroyed Russian main battle tank laying beside a road on May 25, 2022 in Irpin, Ukraine. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1277184\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1277184\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ED_381676.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"451\" /> Deputy president David Mabuza is welcomed at the Air Force Base Bloemspruit during a visit on May 26, 2022 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. 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(Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1276803\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1276803\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/25GettyImages-1240794744.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" /> A couple poses during a mass wedding for 34 couples at Uyuni Salt Flats on May 20, 2022 in Uyuni, Bolivia. The civil registration organized an open opportunity for citizens from all over Bolivia to get married in the first mass wedding at the Uyuni salt flats. (Photo by Gaston Brito Miserocchi/Getty Images) [/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1277189\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1277189\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/GettyImages-1399261601.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"467\" /> Alpacas dressed as pirates are seen outside the Fairfax County Courthouse on May 25, 2022 in Fairfax, Virginia. 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