Russian strikes in Kyiv, a female militia march in Tehran, protests in Pristina and Alfie Hewett at the US Open – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

Russians are going to the polls for the first time since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022

Sam Kiley, world affairs editor, explains the significance of the insignificant Russian Duma elections

Kyiv denounced the election as illegal because residents of illegally annexed regions of Ukraine were included

The frictions in Russia’s wartime economy are growing