The 20 photographs of the week

The week's best photojournalism was dominated by the violence in Kiev. Here, an anti-government demonstrator builds a barricade with burning tyres in Independent Square. More than 75 people have been killed in the protests. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP

Wounded people walk away from the clashes with riot police. Ukraine's president Viktor Yanukovych offered concessions to the protesters seeking to oust him, agreeing to early presidential elections. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters

In another photograph by Bulent Kilic, protesters stand behind burning barricades during a confrontation with police in Independence Square. The demonstrators pushed the police back about 200 metres and were in control of most of the square, which they first occupied three months ago. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP

Protesters catch fire as they stand behind burning barricades during clashes with police in this final image from Kiev by Bulent Kilic. See more photographs from the violence in Ukraine here. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP

Villarreal's forward Jonathan Pereira kicks a smoke bomb thrown onto the field during the Spanish league match between Villarreal and Celta de Vigo at El Madrigal stadium. Photograph: Jose Jordan/AFP

At the Sochi Winter Olympics, Switzerland's Mischa Gasser takes a warm-up jump before the men's freestyle skiing aerials competition at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park. Photograph: Javier Soriano/AFP

Also in Sochi, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and fellow members of the punk group Pussy Riot are whipped by a Cossack militiaman. The group were set upon by about a dozen Cossacks, who are used by police authorities in Russia to patrol the streets. Photograph: Morry Gash/AP

Models present designs from the autumn/winter 2014 collection by Tata-Naka at the Royal Academy of Arts during London fashion week. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

From London, the fashion world moved to Milan. Here Anna Wintour, Vogue's editor-in-chief, waits for the start of the Bottega Veneta show.
Photograph: Tullio M Puglia/Getty

From behind a curtain, children watch the wedding ceremony of Jewish ultra-orthodox bride Rivka Hannah in Jerusalem. Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP

African asylum seekers, who are alleged to have entered Israel illegally through Egypt, lean at the fence of the Holot detention centre in the southern Negev desert. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP

In a photograph by Mohaamed Salem, a regular contributor to the 20 photographs of the week, Palestinian Hamas militants are seen marching during a training exercise in Gaza. Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters

Young men take part in the destruction of houses in Bangui, in the Central African Republic. Troops from several EU countries will begin deploying in the strife-torn country next month. Photograph: Fred Dufour/AFP

A girl washes dishes in a camp in Juba, South Sudan. Thousands of people have been killed and more than 800,000 have fled their homes since fighting began two months ago, triggered by a power struggle between president Salva Kiir and Machar, his former deputy whom he sacked in July. Photograph: Andreea Campeanu/Reuters

An Afghan refugee attends an event on World Day Of Social Justice at a makeshift school set up in a mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

In another photograph by Muhammed Muheisen, a trained monkey, which makes a living for its Pakistani owner, is held by a leash in Rawalpindi. Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

A television is covered in ash from the eruptions of Mount Kelud at Pandansari village in Indonesia. Photograph: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty

A woman trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building waits to be rescued in Gyeongju, South Korea. According to police, dozens of university students were trapped after a building's roof collapsed after heavy snowfall. Photograph: Lee Sang-Hyun/AP

Marines participate in a US-Japanese joint military exercise outside Camp Pendleton, in California. Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP

And finally back to Ukraine, where the country's MPs are seen clashing during a parliamentary session in Kiev. At the end of the week President Viktor Yanukovych said he was starting the process of changing the constitution and forming a government of national unity. Photograph: Maksym Marusenko/AFP