Every week, Zaborona publishes photos that highlight important events of the last seven days in Ukraine and the world. This time, the editorial team selected phptps from the annual mass yoga event in Times Square in New York for peace and calm in the world, Muslims celebrating Eid al-Adha in Malaysia, a march in support of equal rights for LGBTQI+ people in Kyiv, and a postal pigeon competition in England.
Donetsk region, Ukraine
A Ukrainian serviceman of the 80th Separate Galician Air Assault Brigade watches the UEFA Euro 2024 football match between Romania and Ukraine, in a house converted to a military base, in the Donetsk region, on June 17, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: ROMAN PILIPEY/AFP via Getty Images
Ile-de-Sein, France
French President Emmanuel Macron is reflected in the sunglasses of a resident as they converse, following a ceremony at the Croix du Souvenir monument to commemorate General de Gaulle’s World War II “Appel du 18 juin” (Appeal of June 18th), on the island of Ile-de-Sein, on France’s western coast of Brittany, on June 18, 2024. The ceremony pays tribute to the 128 island residents who joined Britain after De Gaulle’s call to resistance on June 18, 1940. Photo: CHRISTOPHE ENA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Ennetbürgen, Switzerland
Heads of states and country representatives pose for a family photograph during the Summit on peace in Ukraine, at the luxury Burgenstock resort, near Lucerne, on June 15, 2024. World leaders from countries around the world gather in Switzerland this weekend to try to work out a way towards a peace process for Ukraine — albeit without Russia. Photo: MICHAEL BUHOLZER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
West Bengal state, India
People gather near the site of a collision between an passenger and a goods train in Nirmaljote, near Rangapani station in India’s West Bengal state on June 17, 2024. At least eight people were killed in India on June 17 when a goods train driver missed a signal and slammed into an express passenger train from behind, police and railway officials said. Photo: DIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP via Getty Images
Karsava, Latvia
Latvia’s President Edgars Rinkevics inspects soldiers building a border wall in Karsava, Latvia, close to the Baltic country’s border with Russia, on June 18, 2024. Photo: GINTS IVUSKANS/AFP via Getty Images
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Rohingya Muslims prepare a cow for slaughter as a sacrificial act during Eid al-Adha on June 17, 2024, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Muslims worldwide are celebrating Eid al-Adha to commemorate the Prophet Ibrahim’s readiness to sacrifice his son as a sign of obedience to God, during which they sacrifice permissible animals – generally goats, sheep, and cows. Photo: Annice Lyn/Getty Images
Grantham, England
A racing pigeon looks out from its basket before being released with thousands of other homing pigeons in an ‘Up North Combine’ liberation in Grantham, England on June 16, 2024. A total of around 6,000 birds were released in three sections. Depending on the distance of their lofts from the liberation site, some homing pigeons will fly for over 200 miles. Founded in 1905, the Up North Combine is an amalgamation of 23 pigeon racing Federations in the north of England from Staithes to Berwick-upon-Tweed. Photo: OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images
Binnish, Syria
An aerial view shows Syrian Muslims holding a prayer around the grave of a loved one, on the first day of the Eid al-Adha holiday marking the end of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, in Binnish, in the Idlib province, on June 16, 2024. The Idlib region, Syria’s last main bastion of armed opposition, hosts about three million people, many of whom are displaced from other parts of the country. Civil war erupted in Syria after President Bashar al-Assad crushed peaceful anti-government protests in 2011. Photo: OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images
Kyiv, Ukraine
Ukrainian servicemen and LGBTQ community activists take part in the “Kyiv Pride 2024” in Kyiv on June 16, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images
Berlin, Germany
A general view inside the stadium as Dani Olmo of Spain runs with the ball during the UEFA EURO 2024 group stage match between Spain and Croatia at Olympiastadion on June 15, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. Photo: Alex Pantling – UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images
Lviv, Ukraine
Players from FC Pokrova Lviv AMP, the first Ukrainian football team made up of military personnel with leg amputations as a result of hostilities, stretch during a training session in Lviv on June 15, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP via Getty Images
Pyongyang, North Korea
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (centre L) and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un (centre R) attend a welcoming ceremony at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on June 19, 2024. Putin enjoyed a red carpet welcome, a military ceremony and an embrace from North Korea’s Kim Jong Un during a state visit to Pyongyang where they both pledged to forge closer ties. Photo: GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Lawndale, California
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of 20 Starlink satellites is seen in the evening sky above Lawndale, California after being launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 18, 2024. Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images
Mecca, Saudi Arabia
An aerial view shows Mecca’s Grand Mosque with the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, in the center on June 17, 2024, during the annual hajj pilgrimage. Saudi Arabia on June 17 warned of a temperature spike in Mecca as Muslim pilgrims wrapped up the hajj in searing conditions, with more than a dozen heat-related deaths confirmed. Photo: FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images
Chartres, France
Anthropologist Emilie Portal looks at the skeleton contained in a sarcophagus dating from the 6th century AD, from the Merovingian period, after its opening, inside the church of Saint Martin-au-Val, in Chartres on June 19, 2024. Kneeling in the center of the Saint-Martin-en-Val church in Chartres, a dozen archaeologists opened a sarcophagus on June 19, 2024, that had been sealed for over 15 centuries and may contain the remains of a “very important religious figure from the Merovingian period”. At the bottom of the pit, more than a dozen other empty tombs of various sizes are lined up. A total of 23 tombs have been uncovered thanks to excavations organized in the church since 2013. Photo: GUILLAUME SOUVANT/AFP via Getty Images
Sanaa, Yemen
Yemenis perform the Eid al-Adha prayer on June 16, 2024, in Sana’a, Yemen. Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice, is the second of the two main holidays in Islam, inspired by the story of Abraham and his willingness to sacrifice his son. Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images
N’Djamena, Chad
Members of the Chadian security forces stand at the scene of the fire at an ammunition depot in N’Djamena on June 19, 2024. A deadly fire erupted late on June 18, 2024 at a huge military ammunition depot in Chad’s capital N’Djamena, causing weapons to fire into the air, the government and witnesses said. Photo: JORIS BOLOMEY/AFP via Getty Images
Bratislava, Slovakia
Members of an honor guard carry flags at the beginning of a ceremonial parliamentary meeting and inauguration event on June 15, 2024 at the Reduta Palace in Bratislava, Slovakia. Peter Pellegrini on April 6, 2024 won a presidential election in the EU and NATO member of 5.4 million people, after divisions over the Ukraine war dominated the vote. Pellegrini is a longtime ally of Prime Minister Robert Fico, who has questioned Ukraine’s sovereignty and discontinued military aid to Ukraine since taking office in October 2023. Photo: JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images
Munich, Germany
The President of the Ukrainian Association of Football Andriy Shevchenko poses with children holding a poster that reads “My national team is as invincible as my country” in front of an installation of damaged seats in the colors of Ukraine taken from the Sonyachny football stadium in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on June 17, 2024 in Munich, southern Germany, where it will be taking place the UEFA Euro 2024 first round football match of Romania v Ukraine later the day. The installation is dedicated to the sports facilities which have been bombed during the Russian-Ukrainian war. Kharkiv was one of the cities to host the UEFA Euro 2012 European Football Championship. The Sonyachny stadium was built for this competition and used afterward as training base for the Ukrainian national football team. It was destroyed by Russian shelling in May 2022. Photo: TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images
