-- AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2015 -- A Ukrainian woman begs Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to stop the bombing in Donetsk after shell hit the residential area where she lives, killing two civilians in Donetsk's Kyibishevsky district, on January 29, 2015. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on January 29 called for urgent truce talks with pro-Russian rebels to end a bloody surge in fighting. Poroshenko said the new meeting in the Belarussian capital should lead to "an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the line of contact." AFP PHOTO / MANU BRABO