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 footage of Ukrainian military training to work with the Patriot system in Germany, an anti-government protest in Armenia, fencing in the slums of Kenya’s capital, and a therapeutic acupuncture session for cats and dogs in Vietnam.
Warsaw, Poland
A military officer teaches a civilian how to aim and shoot an assault rifle during a one-day military training with the 18th Capital Territorial Defense Brigade on June 08, 2024 in Warsaw, Poland. Since the Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine, Poland has introduced the program “Train with the army”, a one-day training for civilians with army/military professionals where is tough weapon handling, survival rules, close combat, medical assistance, behavior during an alarm and many others. Photo: Omar Marques/Getty Images
Kyiv, Ukraine
A violinist plays on a pedestrian bridge on the background of the Dnipro River on June 8, 2024 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photo: Andrew Kravchenko/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
Activists and relatives of Ukrainian POWs hold up banners and urge for the return of Ukrainian soldiers from Russian captivity during the rally organized in the neighborhood of Lukianivska on June 9, 2024 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The ‘Don’t be silent. Captivity kills’ rally in support of the captured defenders of Mariupol is held to remind the Ukrainian society about the Ukrainian soldiers who have been held in Russian captivity or gone missing for more than two years. Photo: hurricanehank/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
Budapest, Hungary
Peter Magyar holds the Hungarian flag at a campaign rally at the Heroes’ Square on June 8, 2024 in Budapest, Hungary. Peter Magyar former government insider, de facto leader and vice-president of the Party for Respect and Freedom (TISZA), who is building a political movement that has become Hungary’s largest opposition force, held the campaign rally a day before the EU elections. Photo: Janos Kummer/Getty Images
Veresegyhaz, Hungary
Women in traditional Hungarian dresses leave the voting booth at a polling station in a school in Veresegyhaz, some 30kms east of Budapest, on June 09, 2024 during the European Parliament election. Photo: ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images
Nairobi, Kenya
Tsavora Fencing Mtaani Club members take part in a fencing bout during a ‘fencing mtaani’, meaning ‘fencing in the streets’ in Swahili — a training session in the Mathare informal settlement of Nairobi, on June 9, 2024. Along the muddy tracks of the sprawling Mathare informal settlement in Kenya’s capital, scores of teenagers train each weekend under 27-year-old Mburu Wanyoike, whose initiative offers hope in a place bedeviled by crime and lack of opportunity. Photo: LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C-L) and German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius (C-R) stand with Ukrainiana and German soldiers during a visit to a military training area in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, north-eastern Germany, on June 11, 2024, where Ukrainian soldiers are trained on the ‘Patriot’ air defence missile system. Photo: JENS BUTTNER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Yerevan, Armenia
Anti-government activists clash with Armenian police officers during a protest in Yerevan on June 12, 2024. Police in Armenia on June 12 detained dozens of demonstrators who rallied outside parliament to demand Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation over land concessions to Azerbaijan. Photo: KAREN MINASYAN/AFP via Getty Images
Pristina, Kosovo
Drag performers prepare in the backstage for a show at a theater in Pristina, during the pride week in Kosovo, on June 7, 2024. Photo: ARMEND NIMANI/AFP via Getty Images
Havana, Cuba
A woman waves to crew members of the nuclear-powered submarine Kazan, part of the Russian naval detachment visiting Cuba, after its arrival at Havana’s harbor on June 12, 2024. The Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kazan — which will not be carrying nuclear weapons — and three other Russian naval vessels, will dock in the Cuban capital from June 12-17. The unusual deployment of the Russian military so close to the United States — particularly the powerful submarine — comes amid major tensions over the war in Ukraine, where the Western-backed government is fighting a Russian invasion. Photo: YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images
Carentan-les-Marais, France
100-year-old American World War 2 veteran Harold Terens and his 96-year-old bride Jeanne Swerlin Terens arrive for their wedding ceremony in the Carentan-les-Marais Town Hall June 8, 2024 in Carentan-les-Marais. Terens, who served in France during the war, returned to the Normandy area for the 80th anniversary of D-Day and will take part in this evening’s state dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron for U.S. President Joe Biden. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images
Bustillos Lagoon, Mexico
Aerial view showing dead fish due to drought in the Bustillos Lagoon, near Anahuac, Chihuahua State, Mexico, taken on June 5, 2024. According to local authorities, the water levels of the Bustillos Lagoon are extremely low due to the high temperatures in recent days that exceeded 40 degrees Celsius, a phenomenon attributed to climate change. Photo: ALEX ARZAGA/AFP via Getty Images
Prayagraj, India
Women quench their thirst with the tap water on a hot summer afternoon during heatwave in Prayagraj on June 10, 2024. India’s heatwave is the longest ever to hit the country, the government’s top weather expert said on June 10 as he warned people will face increasingly oppressive temperatures. Parts of northern India have been gripped by a heatwave since mid-May, with temperatures soaring over 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit). Photo: ANIL SHAKYA/AFP via Getty Images
Berlin, Germany
Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska (L) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen kiss under the eyes of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (top L) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (top T) at the beginning of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin on June 11, 2024. The conference running from June 11 to 12, 2024 “is a continuation of the annual series of high-level political events dedicated to the swift recovery and long-term reconstruction of Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine”. Photo: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko (2nd from R), Berlin Governing Mayor Kai Wegner (3rd from L) and “Life Bridge Ukraine” project leader Janine von Wolfersdorff (C) pose with injured Ukrainians who have received prosthetics at the Seeger center for technical orthopedics on June 12, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. “Life Bridge Ukraine”, a project between the cities of Berlin and Kyiv, is providing prosthetics and rehab to 40 Ukrainians who lost limbs in the ongoing war. The project is also training technicians who are to open a prosthetics manufacturing workshop in Kyiv in the near future. Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Hanoi, Vietnam
91-year-old Dr. Pham Thi Xuan Van, a pioneer of animal acupuncture in Vietnam, gives a therapeutic massage to a dog on June 12, 2024, in Hanoi, Vietnam. She is the founder of Vet Acupuncture Clinic, a community veterinary clinic on the Vietnam National University of Agriculture campus, where cats and dogs can receive traditional needle and electro-acupuncture treatment to address paralysis, metabolic dysfunction, urinary retention and epilepsy. Photo: Chris Trinh/Getty Images
Paju, South Korea
Barricades are placed near the Unification Bridge, which leads to the Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on June 11, 2024 in Paju, South Korea. Tensions between South and North Korea have escalated sharply in recent days, with both sides engaging in provocative actions, including North Korea’s launch of hundreds of trash-filled balloons across the border and South Korea’s decision to resume anti-North Korea propaganda broadcasts via loudspeakers. The move by South Korea marks a significant escalation in the ongoing conflict between the two Koreas, with North Korea warning of “new responses” if the broadcasts continue, amid concerns of a potential military response from Pyongyang. Photo: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images
Savelletri, Italy
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (L) arrives on a small car to attend a skydiving demonstration at the San Domenico Golf Course in Savelletri, Italy on June 13, 2024. Leaders of the G7 wealthy nations gather in southern Italy this week against the backdrop of global and political turmoil, with boosting support for Ukraine top of the agenda. Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
San Francisco, California
Volunteers install pink tarps to form the Pink Triangle on Twin Peaks ahead of Pride 2024, in San Francisco, Saturday, June 8, 2024. The symbol, once used by the Nazis in concentration camps during World War II to identify and shame homosexuals, is now being embraced by the LGBTQ community as a symbol of pride. Photo: Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images
