Every week, Zaborona publishes photos that highlight important events of the last seven days. This time, the editorial team has selected images from the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, the Russian missile attack on Chernihiv, the 30th anniversary of Quentin Tarantino’s cult film Pulp Fiction, and an agave plantation in the city of Tequila — home to the traditional Mexican alcoholic beverage.
Izyum, Ukraine
Hero of Ukraine Lieutenant Colonel Serhiy Verbytsky poses for a portrait near the remains of his SU-24M aircraft on the outskirts of the town of Izyum, Kharkiv Region, on April 17, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. On March 22, 2022, the crew of the SU-24M bomber, consisting of pilot Oleksiy Kovalenko and navigator Serhiy Verbytsky, bombed a column of Russian heavy equipment, after which their plane was shot down. The pilot Oleksiy Kovalenko died, and the navigator Serhiy Verbytskyi managed to eject and the injured man to get to the Ukrainian positions. Both pilots were awarded the title Hero of Ukraine. Photo: ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images
Weimar, Germany
French Holocaust survivor Raymond Renaud places a flower during the commemoration ceremony to mark the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp at the camp’s memorial site in Buchenwald, near Weimar, Eastern Germany, on April 14, 2024. Buchenwald as well as the camp Mittelbau-Dora were liberated by the United States Army in April 1945. More than 76,000 men, women and children died at Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora during World War II. They were either killed by the Nazis or perished through illness, cold or starvation. Thousands of Jews were among the dead, but also Roma, political opponents of the Nazis, gays and Soviet prisoners of war. Photo: JENS SCHLUETER/AFP via Getty Images
Sydney, Australia
The Sydney Opera House is illuminated with a black ribbon in honor of the Bondi Junction victims on April 15, 2024, in Sydney, Australia. Six victims, plus the offender, who was shot by police at the scene, are dead following a stabbing attack at Westfield Shopping Centre Bondi Junction in Sydney on April 13, 2024. Photo: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images
Kairana, India
A burqa-clad woman shows her inked finger after casting her ballot to vote in the first phase of India’s general election at a polling station in Kairana, Shamli district, in India’s Uttar Pradesh state on April 19, 2024. Photo: SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images
Mariupol, Ukraine
Workers clean debris around sculptures of historical figures at the destroyed local History museum in Mariupol, in Russian-controlled Ukraine, on April 15, 2024, amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Photo: -/AFP via Getty Images
New York City, USA
Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears ahead of the start of jury selection at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 15, 2024, in New York City. Former President Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. Photo: Jeenah Moon-Pool/Getty Images
Cucuta, Colombia
People light candles during a vigil against violence in Cucuta, Colombia on April 15, 2024. Jaime Vasquez, A Colombian journalist investigating corruption, was killed over the weekend in Cucuta, a city near the border with Venezuela, officials said on April 15. Another eight people were killed in and around Cucuta on the same weekend, police said, in a region where paramilitary fighters, guerrillas and local criminal gangs are known to operate. Photo: SCHNEYDER MENDOZA/AFP via Getty Images
Tehran, Iran
A woman walks past a banner depicting launching missiles bearing the emblem of the Islamic Republic of Iran in central Tehran on April 15, 2024. Iran on April 14 urged Israel not to retaliate militarily to an unprecedented attack overnight, which Tehran presented as a justified response to a deadly strike on its consulate building in Damascus. Photo: ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images
Copenhagen, Denmark
This photo taken on April 18, 2024, shows firefighters standing nearby as the outer wall of the historic former stock exchange Boersen collapses in Copenhagen, two days after a fire broke out that burned about half of the 17th century building. The facade of Copenhagen’s historic former stock exchange collapsed on April 18, rescue services said, as work to put out the last of the flames continued for a third day. Half of the 17th-century Borsen building was destroyed and its 54-meter (180-foot) spire tumbled to the ground in the fire that broke out early Tuesday, April 16, in scenes that shocked Denmark. Photo: THOMAS TRAASDAHL/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images
Nepal
Tents of mountaineers are pictured at Everest base camp in the Mount Everest region of Solukhumbu district on April 18, 2024, on the tenth anniversary of an avalanche which killed 16 Nepali guides. Ten years ago on April 18, 2014, Nepali mountain guide Dawa Tashi Sherpa was fighting for his life after being hit by an avalanche on Everest which was then the deadliest disaster on the world’s highest mountain. Photo: PURNIMA SHRESTHA/AFP via Getty Images
Chernigiv, Ukraine
Ukrainian rescuers clear the rubble of a destroyed building following a missile attack in Chernigiv on April 17, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A Russian strike on the historic city of Chernigiv in northern Ukraine killed 18 people and wounded dozens more on April 17, 2024, as Kyiv pleaded for allies to bolster its over-stretched air defence systems. Photo: GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images
Lima, Peru
A nurse takes care of a dengue fever patient at the Sergio Bernales National Hospital in the outskirts of Lima on April 17, 2024. Peru recorded 147 deaths from dengue fever and more than 155,000 reported cases as of April 17, according to the Ministry of Health. These figures far exceed the 39 deaths and 34,000 cases recorded in the same period in 2023. Photo: JUAN CARLOS CISNEROS/AFP via Getty Images
Negev desert, Israel
A boy rides a donkey near one of the batteries of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system at a village not recognized by Israeli authorities in the southern Negev desert on April 14, 2024. Photo: AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images
Kyiv, Ukraine
Writer Vitalii Kapranov speaks during funeral ceremony for his twin brother Dmytro Kapranov on April 18, 2024 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The Kapranov brothers are known for their novels and historical non-fiction books. The brothers also had their own YouTube channel on historical topics ‘Named after T. H. Shevchenko’. Dmytro Kapranov, 57, died suddenly on Tuesday, April 16 in Kyiv. Photo: Oleksii Chumachenko/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
Shaqlawa, Iraq
Ranyia Raid, a member of Iraq’s Sabean-Mandaean community, (C) takes part in ritual purification during her wedding ceremony in the Kurdish town of Shaqlawa, 45 kilometres north of Arbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, on April 14, 2024. Photo: SAFIN HAMID/AFP via Getty Images
Los Angeles, USA
(L-R) US actor Samuel L. Jackson, US actor Harvey Keitel, US actress Uma Thurman and US actor John Travolta attend the 30th anniversary presentation of “Pulp Fiction” during the TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California, April 18, 2024. Photo: ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images
Mokpo, South Korea
A guest holds a white flower before laying it along with others on a table during a remembrance ceremony in front of the salvaged Sewol ferry at a port in Mokpo, South Jeolla Province, on April 16, 2024, as South Korea marked the 10th anniversary of the country’s worst-ever maritime disaster, when hundreds of schoolchildren died after the overloaded Sewol ferry capsized and sank. Photo: ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images
Arcachon, France
The French sailing ship “Le Francais” is escorted by a French gendarme on a jetski as it sails towards the port of Arcachon, southestern France, on April 18, 2024. Two sailing ships, “Le Français” and “Phoenix”, entered the Arcachon basin to join the boat show of Arcachon where they will be open to the public during the three days of the show, from April 19 to April 21. Photo: PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images
Kato Tritos, Greece
This photograph taken on April 17, 2024, shows tombs at the newly renovated cemetery dedicated to refugees drowned while trying to cross to Europe in the Aegean Sea, near Kato Tritos village on the Greek island of Lesbos. Photo: MANOLIS LAGOUTARIS/AFP via Getty Images