The 20 photographs of the week

This week's most dramatic photojournalism came from the streets of Ukraine and Venezuela. Here, in this photograph by Bulent Kilic in Kiev, an alleged sniper of the pro-government forces is attacked by protesters as the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych collapsed last weekend. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP

Boots belonging to a protester are left on a makeshift memorial at Independence Square in Kiev.
Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty

Visitors pose in front of the luxury residence of Viktor Yanukovych near Kiev. The former Ukrainian president fled to Russia, from where he stated that he was 'not overthrown' and would continue to struggle for his country. Photograph: Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP

In another photograph by Yuriy Dyachyshyn, doctors provide medical assistance to protesters wounded during clashes with police inside a makeshift hospital in the Mykhaylo Gold Domes cathedral in Kiev. Photograph: Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP

Afghan asylum seekers camp inside the Church of Saint John the Baptist at the Beguinage area of Brussels. The church has been occupied in an attempt to urge authorities to allow the refugees to stay in Belgium. Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters

An Afghan National Army soldier is seen through damaged glass as he keeps watch near an army outpost in Kunar province. The Taliban killed 21 soldiers in an assault in the remote mountainous region. Photograph: Omar Sobhani/Reuters

In northern India, a leopard created panic when it strayed into a hospital, cinema and an apartment block. Here it squeezes through a hole in the wall of the Meerut Cantonment hospital. Photograph: AFP

A member of a folk group takes hold of a child as part of a traditional parade in Valdesoto, Spain. Photograph: Eloy Alonso/Reuters

Monks in costumes attend a Tibetan Buddhist religious ceremony, known as Da Gui or beating ghost, to celebrate the forthcoming Tibetan new year at Yonghegong Lama temple, Beijing. Photograph: Jason Lee/Reuters

A model wears a creation by Gareth Pugh during Paris fashion week. Photograph: Patrick Kovarik/AFP

UNHCR special envoy Angelina Jolie meets young Syrian refugees at an informal tented settlement in Zahle, Lebanon. Photograph: UNHCR/Getty

Residents from the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk queue to receive food supplies in Damascus, Syria. The UN is calling on warring sides in the country to allow aid workers to resume distribution of food and medicine in this besieged district of Damascus. Photograph: AP

Prospective immigrants jump over a fence into the north African Spanish enclave of Melilla. More than 300 migrants launched a dawn assault and tried to cross a triple-layer border fence into the Spanish city, which lies on the northern tip of Morocco, and 214 made it across. Photograph: Blasco De Avellaneda/AFP

South Sudanese women wait in line for food in Juba. Around 26,000 displaced people from the Nuer ethnic group are sheltered in a temporary camp, which they cannot leave due to ethnic tensions with the Dinkas. Photograph: Fabio Bucciarelli/AFP

People are silhouetted at dawn as they walk on the main road to the Dinka stronghold of Cueibet in South Sudan. Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP

Children play with a suitcase in a camp for the Nuer ethnic group in Bor, South Sudan. Human Rights Watch reported that war crimes have been committed by all sides in the country. Thousands have been killed and almost 900,000 forced from their homes during more than two months of battles between rebel and government forces, who are backed by troops from neighbouring Uganda. Photograph: JM Lopez/AFP

A demonstrator prepares petrol bombs amid clashes with police during anti-government protests in Valencia, Venezuela. Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

In another photograph by Rodrigo Abd, anti-government protesters take cover during the continuing clashes with riot police in Caracas. The demonstrators' main grievances are rampant crime, economic problems and the heavy-handed government response to protests. Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina are apprehended by Russian police at a rally to support the Bolotnaya Square prisoners in Moscow. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty

People flee Bangui in a container in this photograph by a regular contributor to this gallery, Fred Dufour. Around 28,000 people have fled from conflict-torn Central African Republic to neighbouring Cameroon since the start of February. Photograph: Fred Dufour/AFP