Every week, Zaborona publishes photographs that highlight important events of the last seven days in Ukraine and the world. This time, the editorial team has selected images from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Ukrainian F-16 pilots in Belgium, the EFES-2024 national military exercises in Turkey, a traditional hill race for Gloucester cheese in England, and a record 52 °C heat wave in India.
Athens, Greece
In this handout image provided by Red Bull, David Colturi of the USA dives from the 27-metre platform during the second competition day of the first stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series on May 25 2024 at Athens, Greece. Photo: Romina Amato/Red Bull via Getty Images
Tbilisi, Georgia
A woman waves Georgian national flag as she protests the “foreign influence” law crowd outside the parliament building in central Tbilisi on May 28, 2024. Georgia’s parliament on Tuesday adopted a controversial “foreign influence” law, which has sparked weeks of mass protests and a blizzard of international condemnation. Lawmakers voted 84 to 4 to pass the bill after overriding a veto lodged by President Salome Zurabishvili’s. The move came despite ongoing street protests and warnings from Brussels and the US that the measure undermines Georgia’s European Union membership bid. Photo: GIORGI ARJEVANIDZE/AFP via Getty Images
Kyiv, Ukraine
A man holding a flag of Ukrainian 55th Artillery Brigade kneels down at a memorial area with Ukrainian and other countries flags commemorating fallen Ukrainian and foreign fighters at the Independence Square, in Kyiv, on May 27, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: ROMAN PILIPEY/AFP via Getty Images
Melsbroek, Belgium
Belgian Defence minister Ludivine Dedonder (L), Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo pose in front of an F-16 fighter jet during an inspection visit after Belgium committed to deliver 30 of them to help Kyiv battle Russia’s invasion, at Melsbroek military airport on May 28, 2024. Zelensky visits Belgium to ink the latest in a string of security accords with Western allies. Belgium committed to delivering 30 F-16 fighter jets by 2028 to help Kyiv battle Russia’s invasion. Photo: SIMON WOHLFAHRT/AFP via Getty Images
Lisbon, Portugal
Ukrainian residents in Portugal stage a demonstration in support of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky outside Belem Presidential Palace on May 28, 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal. On May 27 Portuguese PM office stated in a communique that “President Zelensky’s working visit is part of the shared intention to deepen the excellent relations between the two states, with a particular focus on strengthening cooperation in the field of security and defense.” Photo: Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Getty Images
Fans gather around the stadium prior to the concert of American singer and songwriter Taylor Swift as part of her ‘Eras Tour’, at Estadio da Luz in Lisbon, on May 24, 2024. Photo: ANDRE DIAS NOBRE/AFP via Getty Images
Israel and the Gaza Strip
This picture taken from Israel’s southern border with the Gaza Strip shows destruction in the Palestinian territory on May 29, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Photo: JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images
Israeli soldier stands on an armored personnel carrier as it moves along the border with the Gaza Strip on May 29, 2024 in Southern Israel, Israel. In recent days, Israeli forces have pressed farther into central Rafah, despite international objections to a ground offensive in Gaza’s southernmost city. A US spokesperson said he doesn’t believe the activity constitutes a “major ground offensive” in Rafah by Israel, which the US said it would not support. Photo: Amir Levy/Getty Images
La Paz, Bolivia
Women dances Morenada during Lord Of The Great Power festivity parade on May 25, 2024 in La Paz, Bolivia. This parade, which has been held in La Paz since 1930, mixes Catholicism and local traditions and folklore from the Andean region. Photo: Gaston Brito/Getty Images
Reykjavík, Iceland
In this aerial view, the Mammoth carbon removal plant, considered the largest direct-air capture plant in the world is seen on May 24, 2024 in Reykjavik, Iceland. The Swiss start-up Climeworks and Icelandic partner Carbfix collaborated on the Mammoth project, utilizing Climeworks’ Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology to extract CO2 directly from the air using fans and special filters. Powered by clean geothermal energy, the CO2 is then pumped deep into Iceland’s bedrock, locking it away permanently. Mammoth’s annual capture of 36,000 tons of CO2 is seen as a significant step in fighting climate change. Photo: John Moore/Getty Images
Brockworth, England
Competitors come tumbling down the hill in pursuit of a round Double Gloucester cheese during the annual Cooper’s Hill cheese rolling competition near the village of Brockworth, Gloucester, in western England, on May 27, 2024. The annual Cooper’s Hill Cheese Rolling involves competitors chasing an eight pound Double Gloucester cheese down a steep hill. Photo: HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images
Ashaghi Askipara, Azerbaijan
A rusty sign sits in the village of Ashaghi Askipara, one of the four villages Armenia recently returned to Azerbaijani control under border demarcation deal between the Caucasus rivals — who fought two wars for control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, on May 28, 2024. Photo: STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images
Satkhira, Bangladesh
Forest officials carry an injured pregnant deer for treatment in Satkhira-Sundarban range in Satkhira on May 28, 2024, following the landfall of Cyclone Remal in low-lying area of Bangladesh. Cyclone Remal, which made landfall in low-lying Bangladesh and neighbouring India on May 26 evening with fierce gales and crashing waves, left at least 38 people dead, destroyed thousands of homes, smashed seawalls and flooded cities across the two countries. Photo: ABDUL GONI/AFP via Getty Images
Enga Province of Papua New Guinea
Locals gather at the site of a landslide at Mulitaka village in the region of Maip Mulitaka, in Papua New Guinea’s Enga Province on May 26, 2024. More than 670 people are believed dead after a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea, a UN official told AFP on May 26 as aid workers and villagers braved perilous conditions in their desperate search for survivors. Photo: STR/AFP via Getty Images
Varanasi, India
A man looks on as he covers his face with a cloth on a hot summer afternoon in Varanasi on May 29, 2024, amid ongoing heatwave. Temperatures in India’s capital soared to a national record-high of 52.3 degrees Celsius (126.1 Fahrenheit) on May 29, figures from the government’s weather bureau showed, as it warned of dangerous heat levels in the sprawling megacity. Photo: NIHARIKA KULKARNI/AFP via Getty Images
Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico’s presidential candidate for the ruling Morena party Claudia Sheinbaum poses for pictures with supporters as she arrives to her campaign closing rally, at the Zocalo square in Mexico City on May 29, 2024. Mexico will hold general election on June 2 and its next president will face an array of challenges, including managing migration, delicate relations with the neighboring United States and criminal violence that has left more than 450,000 people dead and tens of thousands missing since 2006. Photo: PEDRO PARDO/AFP via Getty Images
Vienna, Austria
Policemen carry away a woman from a so-called “Protestcamp fuer Palaestina” (protest encampment for Palestine) set up by students and sympathizers protesting the war in Gaza in solidarity with the Palestinian people, on May 29, 2024 on the campus of the TU Wien Vienna Univesity of Technology in Vienna, Austria. Photo: JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images
Izmir, Turkey
Elite observer day of Exercise Efes-2024 begins on May 30, 2024 in Izmir, Turkey. The elite observer day of Exercise Ephesus-2024, one of the largest combined, joint exercises of the Turkish Armed Forces, has begun. The elite observer day, which was also watched by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is being followed by Yaşar Güler, the Minister of National Defense, the defense ministers and chiefs of staff of friendly and allied countries, and the Turkish Armed Forces command. Photo: Yavuz Ozden/ dia images via Getty Images
Paris, France
People take part in a giant open-air picnic on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris on May 26, 2024. Around 4,000 people were selected to have lunch on a 216-meter-long red-and-white chequered rug, the “world’s largest tablecloth”. Photo: JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP via Getty Images
