The Day in Photos – December 21 2022

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This photograph shows an object of a critical power infrastructure as it burns after a drone attack to Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Drones attacked the Ukrainian capital early on December 19, 2022 morning, the Kyiv city military administration said, urging people to heed air alerts. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)


In this photo released by State Emergency Service of Ukraine on Monday, December 19, 2022, Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at an infrastructure facility after a Russian drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Pavel Petrov, SESU via AP Photo)


A local resident walks on an empty street, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Bakhmut, Ukraine on December 18, 2022. (Photo by Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters)


A woman removes broken glass inside a hospital damaged by recent shelling in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, December 20, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)


An injured Ukrainian soldier receives first aid at a hospital in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, December 19, 2022. (Photo by LIBKOS/AP Photo)


Local residents walk between the debris of residential buildings damaged by Russian shelling in Kherson on December 20, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)


Local residents gather near a residential building as a critical power infrastructure object burns after a Russian drone attack, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine on December 19, 2022. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)


People mourn over the coffins of people killed in a militant attack during their funeral in Najaf, Iraq, Tuesday, December 20, 2022. Eight people were killed Monday in an attack by gunmen on motorbikes on an Iraqi village west of Baghdad, officials said. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)


A Palestinian youth use a slingshot to hurl a bottle amid clashes with Israeli soldiers at the northern entrance to the city of Ramallah, near the Israeli settlement of Beit El, in the occupied West Bank, on December 20, 2022, in the wake of the death of Nasser Abu Hamid, who died earlier while in Israeli prison. A senior Fatah figure, Abu Hamid, died from cancer on December 20 while serving a life sentence in Israeli prison for his participation in deadly attacks during the second intifada. (Photo by Abbas Momani/AFP Photo)


Israeli soldiers, flanked by journalists, take cover behind concrete barriers amidst clashes with Palestinian youths following a protest against the death of Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Hamed in Israeli prison in city centre of the flashpoint city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on December 20, 2022. A senior Fatah figure, Nasser Abu Hamid, died from cancer on December 20 while in Israeli custody. He was serving a life sentence in an Israeli prison for his participation in deadly attacks during the second intifada. (Photo by Hazem Bader/AFP Photo)


Two cows walk past an Israeli Merkava Mk IV during a military exercise near Moshav Kidmat Tsvi in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on December 20, 2022. (Photo by Jalaa Marey/AFP Photo)


Jordanian military personnel carry the coffin of Captain Ghaith al-Rahahleh, who was killed in riots last week, in Amman's Sweileh district on December 19, 2022. A gun battle in Jordan left dead three security force members and a man wanted for the killing of a senior police officer during protests last week, authorities said. Strikes and protests against rising fuel prices have rocked several southern provinces in recent days and led to clashes with security forces. (Photo by Khalil Mazraawi/AFP Photo)


A police officer looks out from the lobby after a fatal mass shooting at a condominium building in the Toronto suburb of Vaughan, Ontario, Canada on December 19, 2022. (Photo by Carlos Osorio/Reuters)


French football fans celebrate on the Champs Elysees after Kylian Mbappé equalises in the final of the Fifa World Cup on December 18, 2022 in Paris, France. France lost to Argentina on penalties after drawing 3-3 after extra time despite French forward Kylian Mbappé scoring only the second hat-trick in World Cup history in the final match of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 tournament hosted in Qatar. (Photo by Kiran Ridley/Getty Images)


French police officers confront an individual on the Champs-Elysees as football fans gather after France's defeat in the final football match of the Qatar 2022 World Cup between Argentina and France in central Paris on December 18, 2022. (Photo by Charly Triballeau/AFP Photo)


A photograph taken on December 19, 2022 shows a child playing in the Desert city, a section of The Gingerbread City, displayed at the Museum of Architecture, in London. The exhibition The Gingerbread City will run until January 2, 2022. Over 100 architects, landscape architects, engineers and designers have come together to create this year’s The Gingerbread City 2022 built around five mini-cities in .five of the world’s climate zones – Polar, Temperate, Continental, Desert and Tropical. (Photo by Ben Stansall/AFP Photo)


People walk under Christmas Lights decoration in New Taipei city, Taiwan, 19 December 2022. Although Christmas is not an official holiday in Taiwan, many young Taiwanese celebrate it by having Christmas dinners or presenting gifts to friends and loved ones. (Photo by Ritchie B. Tongo/EPA/EFE)


Dachshunds at the annual Hyde Park Sausage Walk, in Hyde Park, London on Sunday, December 18, 2022, as dachshunds and their owners meet up to celebrate the Christmas season, with many of the sausage dogs in fancy dress. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)


A girl encounters a man dressed as Saint Mykola (Saint Nicolas) in Kherson, on December 19, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)


A man wearing a Santa Claus outfit speaks to children in an aviation hangar during a Christmas event in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, December 20, 2022. Dozens of children attended the event, organized by the Romanian interior ministry aviation department on the outskirts of the Romanian capital. (Photo by Andreea Alexandru/AP Photo)


Helton Garcia dressed as Santa Claus rides on a motorcycle before distributing small presents to children in a rural school in Santo Antonio do Descoberto, state of Goias, Brazil on December 18, 2022. (Photo by Adriano Machado/Reuters)


A member of the Amigos do Papai Noel (Friends of Santa Claus group) dressed as Santa Claus pilots a boat during a visit to the community located along the Negro River, in Iranduba, Amazonas State, Brazil on December 17, 2022. (Photo by Bruno Kelly/Reuters)


Climbers dressed as Santa Claus climb the building of the paediatric clinic of the Ljubljana University Medical Centre in Ljubljana, Slovenia on December 19, 2022. (Photo by Jure Makovec/AFP Photo)


People dressed as Santa Claus and Mrs Claus at Victoria Station in London, before boarding the Santa Steam Express, with festively decorated 1970's carriages, for a 1 hour 45 minute steam journey around London on Monday, December 19, 2022. (Photo by Kirsty O'Connor/PA Images via Getty Images)


A Santa hangs down the facade of the Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, with the help of the Charity Firemen of Barcelona, as he visits children admitted to the medical center, in Barcelona, Spain, 19 December 2022. (Photo by Alejandro Garcia/EPA/EFE)


One-and-half-year-old Asian male baby elephant Samu and its mother 21 year-old mother Angele inspect a Christmas tree at the exterior enclosure of the elephants' house at the Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden on December 19, 2022. Zoo keepers decorated the Christmas trees with vegetables and fruits. (Photo by Attila Kisbenedek/AFP Photo)