Every week, Zaborona publishes 20 photos covering important events of the last seven days in Ukraine and the world. This time, the editorial team has selected photos of the commemoration of the victims of the terrorist attack in Olenivka, mass protests against Nicolas Maduro, the first female driver of the Kharkiv subway, and an iconic photo from the 2024 Olympics, in which a Brazilian surfer seems to be hanging in midair.
Joint Base Andrews, Maryland
Evan Gershkovich greets his mother Ella Milman after he arrived back in the United States as U.S. President Joe Biden looks on on August 1, 2024 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Their release, negotiated as part of a 24-person prisoner exchange with Russia that involved at least six countries, is the largest prisoner exchange in post-Soviet history. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
Moscow, Russia
In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin welcomes Russian citizens released in a major prisoner swap with the West, at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport on August 1, 2024. Photo: GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Kharkiv, Ukraine
First female train driver in Kharkiv Metro Anastasiia Mazurkova, 25, sits in driver’s cab of metro train on July 31, 2024 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Mazurkova drives electric trains on the Saltivska line. In 2017, the Cabinet of Ministers canceled the list of professions in which women could not work, including metro train driver. The Kharkiv Metro announced recruitment for electric train driver courses in January 2023. Anastasia says that she started working as a operator at the station, but since childhood she dreamed of driving a train, so she took courses when the opportunity arose. Photo: Eugene Hertnier/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC “UA:PBC”/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
Donetsk region, Ukraine
Portrait of two women who left their home forever with these four bags that carry all their possessions as they are evacuated from the city by volunteer Denis Hristov on July 30, 2024 in Donetsk region, Ukraine. The Russians destroy the city every day with artillery, guided air bombs, FPV drones fly in the city and hunt for cars. Photo: Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images
Al-Shati refugee camp, Gaza Strip
Mourners and colleagues holding ‘press’ signs surround the body of Al-Jazeera Arabic journalist Ismail al-Ghoul, killed along with his cameraman Rami al-Refee in an Israeli strike during their coverage of Gaza’s Al-Shati refugee camp, on July 31, 2024. Al Jazeera condemned the killing of two of its journalists, calling the deaths a “cold-blooded assassination” in a statement. Photo: OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images
Kramatorsk, Ukraine
A Ukrainian serviceman kisses his partner who arrived on a train from Kyiv to visit him, at a railway station in Kramatorsk, eastern Donetsk region, on August 1, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: ROMAN PILIPEY/AFP via Getty Images
Majdal Shams, Israel
Mourners attend a funeral held on July 28, 2024 for 10 of the victims of yesterday’s rocket attack in Majdal Shams, Golan Heights. Yesterday, 12 young people were killed in a rocket attack on a football pitch in this Druze Arab community. Israel blamed the militant group Hezbollah, with which it has been regularly exchanging fire across the Lebanese border, although the group denied responsibility. Today, Israel said it had retaliated with strikes against Hezbollah targets “deep inside Lebanese territory.” Photo: Amir Levy/Getty Images
Tehran, Iran
Iranians hold portraits of late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh during his funeral procession, in Tehran, on August 1, 2024. Iran held funeral processions with calls for revenge after the killing in Tehran of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in a strike blamed on Israel. Haniyeh’s death was announced the day before by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, who blamed arch-foe Israel. Photo: -/AFP via Getty Images
Toyooka, Japan
Dogs wearing life jackets play in the sea with their owners during the high temperature day at Wan Wan Beach on August 01, 2024 in Toyooka, Japan. “Wan Wan Beach” is a dog-only beach open for dogs and their owners every summer in July and August. Over 12,000 heat stroke patients were taken to hospitals around Japan this week when temperatures soared above 35 degrees Celsius in many parts of the country. The Japanese Meteorological Agency has issued a heatstroke alert for vast areas of Japan and announced that the average temperature nationwide is expected to be higher than normal until the end of August. Photo: Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images
Warsaw, Poland
Aerial view shows Poles attending a rally marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupiers in Warsaw, Poland on August 1, 2024. The armed insurgency against occupying Nazi German forces broke out on August 1, 1944 and lasted for two months before it was crushed. Nearly 200,000 people, mostly civilians, died over the course of 63 days of battle, and the Polish capital was reduced to a pile of rubble. Photo: SERGEI GAPON/AFP via Getty Images
French bulldogs named Luna (L) and Francuz (R), dressed as a bride and a groom, attend their wedding at the coffee house ‘Inclusive Barista’, the first cafe in Poland with a workspace fully adapted for employees in wheelchairs, run by exiled Belarusian disability rights activist Sasha Avdevich, in Warsaw, Poland, on July 28, 2024. Photo: SERGEI GAPON/AFP via Getty Images
Lima, Peru
A woman protester clashes with the police during a demonstration against the government of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte in front of the Justice Palace in Lima on July 28, 2024. Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, under investigation by prosecutors for luxury watches she did not declare as part of her assets, said in a message to the nation that neither she nor her government is corrupt, although she avoided referring to the so-called Rolexgate affair. Boluarte spoke from Congress amid protests by dozens of demonstrators who marched against her government outside the legislature. Photo: ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP via Getty Images
Santa Cruz, Philippines
An aerial view of oil slick from the sunken tanker MT Terra Nova in the waters of Manila Bay on July 29, 2024 near the coastal village of Santa Cruz, Paombong, Bulacan province, Philippines. Industrial fuel oil from the capsized MT Terra Nova tanker is leaking into Manila Bay, with the country potentially facing its worst oil spill disaster. The tanker, carrying 1.4 million liters of fuel, sank during Typhoon Gaemi, resulting in an oil slick stretching 12-14 km. The Philippine Coast Guard is racing to contain the spill, which jeopardizes the livelihoods of many coastal communities dependent on the bay. Photo: Ezra Acayan/Getty Images
Wayanad district, India
Relief personnel lift the body of a deceased, during a search and rescue operation after landslides in Wayanad on July 31, 2024. Landslides in the southern state of Kerala have killed at least 108 people and those who survived now wait at hospitals in the state’s affected Wayanad district, hoping one of the bodies is of their relatives. Photo: IDREES MOHAMMED/AFP via Getty Images
Berlin, Germany
Wendy Sorice swings 120m above the rooftops of Berlin, on a structure hanging from a hotel at Alexanderplatz in Berlin on what is supposed to be Europe’s highest swing, on July 31, 2024. The swing is a tourist attraction for those who do not suffer from a fear of heights. Photo: RALF HIRSCHBERGER/AFP via Getty Images
Kyiv, Ukraine
Servicemen of Ukrainian Azov Brigade burn flares during a memorial event at Independence Square in Kyiv on July 28, 2024, marking second year anniversary of the Olenivka prison attack. On July 29, 2022, dozens of Ukrainian soldiers died in the bombardment of the Russian-controlled jail of Olenivka in the eastern Donetsk region. Photo: SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images
Chico, California
Cal Fire firefighters deploy a large Type 3 drone to drop incendiary devices to start fires in an effort to control and contain the Park Fire on July 29, 2024 near Chico, California. The drone ejects Plastic Spherical Dispenser (PSD) balls, about the size of a pingpong ball, which ignite by chemical reaction to create fire when they hit the ground. The Park Fire is now the fifth-largest wildfire in California history, growing to 385,064 acres with 14 precent contained. The fire was started by arson on July 24 and grew to more than 70,000 acres in the first 24 hours. Photo: David McNew/Getty Images
Mariara, Venezuela
The remains of a statue of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez destroyed and burned during a protest against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro are pictured in Mariara, Carabobo State, Venezuela, on July 31, 2024. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday he was willing to share evidence of his election win, with international pressure mounting for him to back up a disputed victory that has sparked deadly protests. Photo: YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images
Karbala, Iraq
Shiite Muslim pilgrims lift banners as they walk on the muddy shore of the Gulf at the start of their march from Iraq’s southern city of al-Faw toward Karbala on July 29, 2024, ahead of the Arbaeen religious festival. Each year, pilgrims converge in large numbers to the holy Iraqi cities of Najaf and Karbala ahead of Arbaeen, which marks the 40th day after Ashura, commemorating the seventh century killing of Prophet Mohammed’s grandson Imam Hussein. Photo: HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP via Getty Images