Every week, Zaborona publishes photos that highlight important events of the past seven days. This time, the editorial team selected photos of the preparations for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Poland, the dismantling of a soviet monument in the center of Kyiv, the trial of a far-right aristocrat in Germany, and the work of Ukrainian night drones near Chasiv Yar.
Slajszewo, Poland
An aerial view taken on May 2, 2024 shows a cleared area within a forest for the construction of a nuclear power plant about two kilometers from the village of Slajszewo, northern Poland. Residents of the Polish Gmina Choczewo commune near the Baltic Sea have been protesting for several years against the devastation of unique seaside areas in Slajszewo in connection with the construction of the first nuclear power plant by Polskie Elektrownie Jadrowe (Polish Nuclear Power Plants). They also fear for the destruction of animal habitat and are afraid of the potential storage of radioactive waste. According to local media, about 40 hectares of forest were cleared in February and March, the clearing of several hundred more hectares is planned in the future. Geological research for the construction of the plant is planned from May to November this year. The project is estimated to cost approximately PLN 150 billion, according to a recent statement by a company representative. Photo: MATEUSZ SLODKOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images
Cocullo, Italy
Live snakes cover the statue of St Dominic during the procession in the village of Cocullo, central Italy, on May 1st, 2024, as part of the traditional festival of the ‘Serpari’ (snake catchers). All the snakes found days before the festival are identified with a microchip, measured, weighed and subjected to laboratory tests by biologists as part of a study on the sensitivity of snakes to seismic movements. Each first of May the small village of Cocullo honors St. Dominic di Sora, patron saint protecting against snakebites and toothache. The snake catchers are also taking part in the monitoring of the snakes species in the region by taking part in a study carried out by a team of researchers from the Aldo Moro University of Bari and the Max Planck Institute. In some specimens a small transmitter is inserted to allow the monitoring of seismological activities, through satellite technology. At the end of the day, the snakes are released back into nature. Photo: TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images
Chasiv Yar, Ukraine
Servicemen of the “Achilles” Battalion from the 92nd assault brigade of the Ukrainian Army check a Vampire hexacopter drone after mission flight over a frontline near Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, on May 1, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These drones are almost exclusively used at night to drop munitions on Russian targets or supplies and medical necessities to Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline. Photo: GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images
Resia, Italy
The church spire of the submerged village of Graun protrudes from the Reschensee lake, which has been nearly completely drained, during construction work of a new alpine road on April 29, 2024 near Resia, Italy. The six kilometer long lake, located in the German-speaking region of South Tyrol, is a reservoir formed from the construction of a nearby dam in the 1950s and submerged the village of Graun. A road runs along its edge, though increasing instability of mountain rock above is making its continued use too dangerous. The new road will run approximately 50 meters away and into the lake, which is requiring construction crews to move massive amounts of sand from the lake’s floor to create a berm for the new road. A warming climate is melting permafrost that binds rock inside mountains across the European Alps, threatening many alpine passages. Once the new road is completed authorities will restore Reschensee with water. Photo: Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images
Kyiv, Ukraine
Workers dismantle the Soviet-era monument symbolising the Pereiaslav Agreement signed in 1645, a pledge of allegiance by Ukranian Cossacks to the Tsar of Russia, in Kyiv on April 30, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Kyiv authorities began taking down a Soviet-era monument celebrating friendship with Russia — more than two years into an invasion by Moscow which has cost tens of thousands of lives. The structure, a series of stone sculptures depicting the treaty’s Ukrainian and Russian signatories, was installed in a park in central Kyiv as part of a memorial complex celebrating the “friendship” between Russians and Ukrainians that opened in 1982. Photo: SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images
Moscow, Russia
People look at US M12A1 Abrams tank captured by Russian forces in Ukraine, displayed at the WWII memorial complex at Poklonnya Hill western in Moscow, on May 1, 2024. The Russian Ministry of Defence opened an exhibition of samples of “Western weapons and military equipment” captured by Russian forces in Ukraine. The exhibition will last for one month. Photo: ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images
New York City
A member of the maintenance crew confronts the demonstrators attempting to barricade themselves inside Hamilton Hall on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in New York City. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched around the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia University as a 2 P.M. deadline to clear the encampment given to students by the university passed. The students were given a suspension warning if they do not meet the deadline. Columbia students were the first to erect an encampment in support of Palestine, with students demanding that the school divest from Israel amid the Israel-Hamas war, where more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip. Photo: Alex Kent/Getty Images
Los Angeles, USA
A California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer detains a protestor while clearing a pro-Palestinian encampment after dispersal orders were given at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, on May 2, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. The camp was declared ‘unlawful’ by the university and over 100 protestors who refused to leave were detained during the operation. Pro-Palestinian encampments have sprung up at college campuses around the country with some protestors calling for schools to divest from Israeli interests amid the ongoing war in Gaza. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images
Washington, DC
Demonstrators try to block arriving guests outside the Washington Hilton, the site of the Annual White House Correspondents Dinner, on April 27, 2024 in Washington, DC. President Joe Biden is attending the event, where demonstrators are attempting to blockade the entrance in protest of the Biden administration’s continued support of Israel despite the calls for a cease fire between Israel and Hamas. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images
Bouli Lewe, Senegal
A herdsmen collects water from a hole for his cattle in Bouli Lewe on May 1, 2024. The small village of Bouli Lewe in the North East of Senegal is home to a few hundred herders. Like many of the villages in this region of Senegal there is no access to running water, whether it is the raining season or the dry season. Families must dig large holes in the low lying areas to access ground water for drinking, cleaning and for their animals. Temperatures during the long dry season average around 40 degrees with some days reaching 50. With no running water families are not able to grow crops and must collect and water two times a day for them selves and their animals. Photo: JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images
Pretoria, South Africa
South Africans dance and sing as they celebrate 30 years of freedom at Union Buildings on April 27, 2024, in Pretoria, South Africa. The country is marking 30 years since its first democratic elections, held in April 1994 after decades of white minority rule that denied Black people the right to vote. The country’s next general election will be held on May 29, amid pervasive economic challenges. Photo: Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images
Dong Nai province, Vietnam
A fisherman collects dead fish caused by renovation works and the ongoing hot weather conditions from a reservoir in southern Vietnam’s Dong Nai province on April 30, 2024. Hundreds of thousands of fish have died in a reservoir in southern Vietnam’s Dong Nai province, with locals and media reports suggesting the brutal heatwave and lake’s management are to blame. Photo: STR/AFP via Getty Images
Stuttgart, Germany
(EDITORS NOTE: Parts of this image have been pixelated to obscure the identity of individuals for legal reasons.) A defendant arrives with his face covered on the first day of the “Reichsbürger” (“Empire citizens”) trial on April 29, 2024 in Stuttgart, Germany. Nine men are facing trial for their involvement in a conspiracy of the “Patriotic Union” led by a far-right aristocrat named Heinrich VIII Prince Reuss, who intended to overthrow the German government and revive the German Empire. Police raided the group in 2022 and arrested 25 people, including Reuss, as well as former Bundestag MP and Alternative for Germany (AfD) member Birgit Malsack-Winkemann and former police and special forces members. Two other trials of accused, including Reuss, will begin in coming weeks in Frankfurt and Munich. Photo: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images
Strenznaundorf, Germany
The 5th annual ‘Ost Krad Treffen’ (East Motorcycle Meeting) of DDR constructed motorcycles gather on May 01, 2024 at Strenznaundorf near Könnern, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Several thousand Motorcycle enthusiasts riding their East German motorcycles dating back to the time of the DDR before German unification assembled for a May Day nostalgia gathering in Eastern Germany over the Bank Holiday. Photo: Craig Stennett/Getty Images
Paris, France
CRS riot police charge demonstrators during the yearly protest marking International Labour Day, also known as Workers Day or May Day, in Paris on May 1, 2024. Photo: ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images
Baghdad, Iraq
Supporters of Iraq’s Communist Party lift flags and placards during a march marking International Workers Day in Baghdad’s Firdous Square on May 1, 2024. Photo: AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images
Donetsk, Ukraine
An Orthodox priest blesses believers holding willow twigs during a Palm Sunday (ukr: Willow Sunday) service in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on April 28, 2024, amid ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Photo: STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images
Odesa, Ukraine
This photograph taken on April 29, 2024, in Odesa, shows a burning building damaged as a result of a missile attack, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A Russian missile strike on April 29, 2024 killed at least two people and wounded eight in the south Ukrainian port city of Odesa, the local governor said. Photo: OLEKSANDR GIMANOV/AFP via Getty Images
Rome, Italy
People gather at San Giovanni Square to remember the victims of the 2 May 2014 Odessa clashes between supporters of the 2014 Euromaidan events and those opposing them on May 2, 2024 in Rome, Italy. 48 people were killed and more than 240 injured during the violence, many of the victims died in the Odessa Trade Union House after it was set on fire. Photo: Stefano Montesi – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images
