Best photographs of the day

A farmers’ protest and a frog among flowers: Thursday’s best photos

The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world

by · the Guardian

Borodyanka, Ukraine

Smoke pours out of a residential building destroyed by shelling as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues

Photograph: Maksim Levin/Reuters

Lviv, Ukraine

Children look out of a carriage window as a train prepares to depart for the town of Uzhhorod, near the border with Slovakia

Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images

Warsaw, Poland

Ukrainian refugees at Warsaw East railway station

Photograph: Paweł Supernak/EPA

Antequera, Spain

Farmers gather during a demonstration to demand fairer prices for their produce

Photograph: Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images

Washington DC

President Joe Biden returns to the White House on Marine One

Photograph: Yuri Gripas/EPA

Pyongyang, North Korea

Kim Jong-un attends a tree-planting ceremony

Photograph: KCNA via KNS

Nairobi, Kenya

The Swiss-French artist Saype (Guillaume Legros) works on his giant ephemeral land art painting World in Progress III, representing two children drawing and building their ideal world, at the United Nations headquarters

Photograph: Valentin Flauraud/AP

San Blas Atempa, Mexico

Indigenous women participate in a carnival parade in Oaxaca

Photograph: Luis Villalobos/EPA

London, England

Commuters wait to get on a bus near Liverpool Street station after thousands of tube workers began strike action. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union are staging a walkout over pensions, working conditions and jobs

Photograph: Vickie Flores/EPA

Inglewood, California

Doechii attends the Billboard Women in Music awards at YouTube Theater

Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters

Londonderry, Australia

Deer are transferred away from flooded farmland on the outskirts of Sydney

Photograph: Rick Rycroft/AP

Hwaseong, South Korea

A green frog sits on primroses at an agricultural research centre two days before Gyeongchip, the day when frogs awaken from hibernation. • This caption was amended on 4 March 2022. An earlier version misdescribed the plant as a moth orchid

Photograph: Yonhap/EPA