A look at the best news photos from around the world.
May 23, 2022
![Russian Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin listens to his translator during a court hearing in Kyiv, Ukraine. The 21-year old soldier facing the first war crimes trial since the start of the war in Ukraine, plead guilty on May 18 to killing an unarmed civilian. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)](https://gdb.voanews.com/03190000-0aff-0242-be49-08da3ce24b3b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Russian Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin listens to his translator during a court hearing in Kyiv, Ukraine. The 21-year old soldier facing the first war crimes trial since the start of the war in Ukraine, plead guilty on May 18 to killing an unarmed civilian. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
![A mortar explodes next to the road leading to the city of Lysychansk in the eastern Ukranian region of Donbas, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS / AFP)](https://gdb.voanews.com/03190000-0aff-0242-5ae5-08da3ce24991_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A mortar explodes next to the road leading to the city of Lysychansk in the eastern Ukranian region of Donbas, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS / AFP)
![British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sits at a desk with some pupils as he pays a visit to St. Mary Cray Primary Academy, in Orpington, England, to see how they are delivering tutoring to help children catch up following the pandemic.(Stefan Rousseau, Pool via AP)](https://gdb.voanews.com/031a0000-0aff-0242-ea4e-08da3ce24aad_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sits at a desk with some pupils as he pays a visit to St. Mary Cray Primary Academy, in Orpington, England, to see how they are delivering tutoring to help children catch up following the pandemic.(Stefan Rousseau, Pool via AP)
![Hundreds of boxes of infant formula arrived from Switzerland are loaded on a C-17 Globemaster III at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, May 22, 2022, for transport to the United States. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jacob Wongwai) ](https://gdb.voanews.com/03180000-0aff-0242-c924-08da3ce74be4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Hundreds of boxes of infant formula arrived from Switzerland are loaded on a C-17 Globemaster III at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, May 22, 2022, for transport to the United States. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jacob Wongwai)