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.](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.
![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.](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.
![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.](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.
![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 during Operation Fly Formula, an operation to quickly import infant formula to the United States that meets U.S. health and safety standards. ](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 during Operation Fly Formula, an operation to quickly import infant formula to the United States that meets U.S. health and safety standards.