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Our world in photos: March 1

March 1, 2022 Michaela Keil
UKRAINE — Animal comfort: Animal keeper Kirilo Trantin comforted an elephant at the Kyiv Zoo in Kyiv, on Tuesday. Russian strikes pounded the central square in Ukraine’s second-largest city and other civilian targets, and a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other vehicles threatened the capital. Photo: Emilio Morenatti/AP (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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FLORIDA — Negotiations: New York Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner walked through Roger Dean Stadium as Major League Baseball negotiations continued in an attempt to reach an agreement to salvage March 31 openers and a 162-game season, on Tuesday, in Jupiter.
Photo: Lynne Sladky/AP

 

VENEZUELA — Carnival: A person sold cotton candy at the beach during the carnival celebration in La Guaira, on Monday.
Photo: Ariana Cubillos/AP

 

VENEZUELA — Super Mustache: A child dressed as “Super Bigote,” or Super Mustache, ran past a Venezuelan flag in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, on Monday. The “Super Bigote” character is a Venezuelan superhero based on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Photo: Matias Delacroix/AP

 

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KANSAS — Sunset run: High school students ran at sunset as they practiced for the track and field season, on Monday, in Shawnee.
Photo: Charlie Riedel/AP

 

UKRAINE — Remains: A member of the Ukrainian Emergency Service looked at the City Hall building in the central square following shelling in Kharkiv, on Tuesday. Russian strikes pounded the central square in Ukraine’s second-largest city and other civilian sites on Tuesday in what the country’s president condemned as a blatant campaign of terror by Moscow.
Photo: Pavel Dorogoy/AP

 

CALIFORNIA — Gas prices: Gas prices were advertised at over six dollars a gallon on Monday, in Beverly Hills.
Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP

 

NEPAL — Mahashivarati festival: A Hindu holy man smoked marijuana during the Mahashivarati festival at Pashupatinath temple premises in Kathmandu, on Tuesday. During the festival this year, authorities expected a very large number of devotees at the temple that remained closed for the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Photo: Niranjan Shreshta/AP

 

OREGON — Guarded: Washington State forward Efe Abogidi, left, and forward DJ Rodman, right, guarded against Oregon State forward Glenn Taylor Jr., center, during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game on Monday, in Corvallis.
Photo: Amanda Loman/AP

 

POLAND — Refugees: Hundreds of beds were placed inside a sports hall to accommodate Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russian invasion at the border crossing town of Medyka, on Tuesday. As trains and buses brought people fleeing Ukraine to the safety of Polish border towns, they carried not just Ukrainians fleeing a homeland under attack but large numbers of other citizens who had made Ukraine their home and whose fates too are now uncertain.
Photo: Visar Kryeziu/AP

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