The main news of this week was the first Oscar in the history of Ukraine, numerous attacks on peaceful Ukrainian cities, and military operations in the Russian border areas. Look at these and other events in the world in Zaborona’s traditional photo selection by the bild editor Pavlo Bishko.
Vatican
The biretta cup of Pope Francis is blown off his head by a gust of wind as he holds his weekly audience in St. Peter’s Square on March 13, 2024 in Vatican City, Vatican. At the start of Audience, the Holy Father explained he would have an assistant, Father Pierluigi Giroli from the Vatican Secretariat of State, read for him, since he still has “a bit of a cold.” Photo: Franco Origlia/Getty Images
Donetsk, Ukraine
Members of a local election commission, accompanied by a serviceman, prepare a mobile polling station during early voting in Russia’s presidential election in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict on March 14, 2024. Photo: STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images
New York City
A retired British Airways Concorde supersonic airliner is moved by a barge past the Statue of Liberty on the Hudson River on March 14, 2024 in New York City. The Concorde, one of a fleet of seven once owned by British Airways, departed the Weeks Marine in Jersey City, N.J. for its return to the Intrepid Museum following a months-long restoration project at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
Brownsville, Texas
People spend time on the beach near the Starship Flight 3 Rocket a day before its scheduled launch at the Starbase facility near Boca Chica beach on March 13, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. SpaceX is preparing to launch its first Starship test of 2024. The operation will be SpaceX’s third attempt at launching a rocket into space. If successful, the company will have achieved a historic milestone for the world’s largest rocket being launched into space. Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images
Basra, Iraq
Members of Iraq’s Sabean-Mandaean community attend a ritual to celebrate Eid al-Khaliqah, the five-day Feast of Creation, along the Shatt al-Arab river (formed at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Iraq) in Basra on March 13, 2024. Photo: HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP via Getty Images
Gruenheide, Germany
In this aerial view workers stand at an electricity transmission tower that delivers electricity to the nearby Tesla Gigafactory that was recently sabotaged on March 13, 2024 near Gruenheide, Germany. Tesla head Elon Musk is rumoured to visit the factory later today. The arson attack took place on March 4 and left the factory without electricity until March 11, with production reportedly resuming today. A leftist activists group called “Vulkan Group” (“Vulkangruppe”) has taken responsibility for the attack. Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Brussels, Belgium
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, (front, 2nd R), Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, (front, R) and Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, (front, 2nd left) pose for an official photo with ambassadors, senior military and military personnel during a ceremony marking Sweden’s accession to NATO during a flag-raising ceremony outside NATO headquarters on March 11, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. The ceremony was held to mark Sweden’s accession to the military alliance, which was made official last week after the country shed its previously neutral stance. Sweden, like Finland, were spurred to join the alliance after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Photo: Omar Havana/Getty Images
Los Angeles, USA
Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov (C), flanked by (from L) Raney Aronson-Rath, Vasilisa Stepanenko and Evgeniy Maloletka, accepts the award for Best Documentary Feature Film for “20 Days in Mariupol” onstage during the 96th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 10, 2024. Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images
Tokyo, Japan
A woman poses for a photo in front of an installation to promote the film “Godzilla Minus One”, which won the Oscar for best visual effects at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, outside a popular shopping centre and official development in the Hibiya area of Tokyo on March 11, 2024. Photo: RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images
Shenyang, China
This photo taken on March 13, 2024 shows migrant birds flying over a reservoir in Shenyang, in northeastern China’s Liaoning province. Photo: STRSTR/AFP via Getty Images
Bali, Indonesia
Balinese man jumps into the fire of burn coconut husks during the fire ritual on March 10, 2024 at traditional sub village of Nagi, in Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia. The mesabatan api ritual is held annually on the eve of Nyepi, the Hindu Day of Silence, the Balinese Caka New Year. The community in Pakraman Nagi village believe the mesabatan api ritual is a part of the cleansing of the negative power on their self. Photo: Agung Parameswara/Getty Images
Gaza Strip
Displaced Palestinians walk amid the rubble of houses destroyed by Israeli bombardment in Hamad area, west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 14, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas movement. Photo: -/AFP via Getty Images
Kyiv, Ukraine
Valentyna (L), widow of Nodar Nasirov, cries over her husband’s during a farewell ceremony for Georgian volunteer fighters of the Georgian National Legion Nodar Nasirov and Giorgi Gogiashvili, which were killed fighting Russian troops, in Kyiv on March 12, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images
Jakarta, Indonesia
Muslim devotees offer night prayers marking the start of Islam’s holy fasting month of Ramadan at Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta on March 11, 2024. Photo: ADEK BERRY/AFP via Getty Images
Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
Children at the playground in front of a residential building damaged as result of night Russian missile attack on March 13, 2024 in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. On the evening of March 12, the Russians launched X-59 missiles at the city. Photo: Yurii Tynnyi/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC “UA:PBC”/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
Paris, France
France’s President Emmanuel Macron looks on before welcoming Lithuania’s President and his wife at the Elysee Presidential Palace prior to their meeting in Paris on March 12, 2024. Photo: JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP via Getty Images
Bogota, Colombia
A model presents a creation made with recycled material and usable waste during the “El Centro Vive Sostenible” fashion and sustainability event in Bogota on March 14, 2024. Photo: RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP via Getty Images
Belgorod, Russia
A journalist wearing a flak jacket works at a polling station during Russia’s presidential election in Belgorod on March 15, 2024. Photo: STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images
Perth, Australia
Laiema Bosenvulagi of the Rebels gets tackled during the round one Super Rugby Women’s match between Western Force and Melbourne Rebels at HBF Park on March 15, 2024 in Perth, Australia. Photo: Paul Kane/Getty Images
