Thanks to the Defense Forces, energy companies, and Western partners, Ukraine was able to survive the winter without total blackouts and in warmth. Despite the panic, we want spring to reinforce our hope for the best with the successes of our defenders at the front, the right political decisions, and faith in our own strength.
Every Friday, Zaborona’s photo editor Pavlo Bishko selects photos from around the world to highlight the most important events of the past week and show what might have been overlooked.
Paris, France
A model walks the runway during the Casablanca Womenswear Fall/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2024 in Paris, France. Photo: Peter White/Getty Images
London, England
Portrait of Princess Diana” by US artist Andy Warhol, created from synthetic polymer and silkscreen ink on canvas, estimated at 1,200 GBP ( 1,400 Euro, 1,500 USD) is positioned by gallery assistants during a photocall ahead of the 20th Century & Contemporary art auction at Phillips’ auction house in London, on February 29, 2024. The 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale takes place on March 7, 2024, in London. Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images
Akshata Murty (R), the wife of Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska listen as singers from the Royal Opera House perform a Chorus of Songs for Ukraine at number 10, Downing Street on February 29, 2024 in London, England. Downing Street invited the Royal Opera House’s ‘Songs for Ukraine Chorus,’ composed of 130 Ukrainians displaced by war, to commemorate the visit of the First Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, to London. Photo: Daniel Leal – Pool/Getty Images
San Diego, California
Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine hits a forehand against Taylah Preston of Australia after during the Cymbiotika San Diego Open 2024 at Barnes Tennis Center on February 28, 2024 in San Diego, California. Photo: Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images
Nairobi, Kenya
A waste collector poses for a photo at the Dandora dumpsite on February 28, 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya. Dandora, a Nairobi slum that was founded in 1977, contains one of the city’s largest landfills. The 30-acre site, created in 1975, draws solid waste from all over Nairobi, as well as waste pickers from the surrounding area who make money by recycling waste materials such as plastic waste, glass bottles, and mental products. The burning of wastes at the site generates emissions that contribute to climate change and that affect residents living in the area. Photo: Donwilson Odhiambo/Getty Images
Moscow, Russia
A woman walks past a screen displaying a broadcasting of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s annual state of the nation address on the facade of a building in Moscow on February 29, 2024. Photo: OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP via Getty Images
Michoacan state, Mexico
American white pelicans are seen on the island of Petatan in the municipality of Cojumatlan de Regules, Michoacan state, Mexico on February 23, 2024. The island becomes home to the pelicans during the winter, when they travel from the north of the United States and the south of Canada to the warmer waters of Lake Chapala in Mexico. The birds are a tourist attraction and people gather on the island’s boardwalk to feed them and watch them fly. Photo: ENRIQUE CASTRO/AFP via Getty Images
Lviv, Ukraine
A symbolic illumination called “Ray of Memory” is seen over the graves of Ukrainian soldiers, who died in the war with Russia, at the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv on February 23, 2024, on the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Photo: YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP via Getty Images
Krasnogorsk, Russia
An officer of Russian Federal Security Service FSB teaches a boy to shoot a Kalashnikov assault rifle during a pro-military event, called “The Patriotic-sportive action To be healthy is fashionable”, hosted by a local administration on February 24, 2024 in Krasnogorsk, a suburb of Moscow, Russia. Today marks two years since Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine. Photo: Contributor/Getty Images
Mojave, California
The Stratolaunch Roc prepares to land while flying near the ‘boneyard’ of retired aircraft at the Mojave Air and Space Port on February 24, 2024 in Mojave, California. Stratolaunch Roc, the largest plane in the world, was returning from a four hour ‘captive carry’ test flight carrying the Talon-A hypersonic test vehicle with live propellant over the Pacific Ocean. The dual-fuselage Stratolaunch Roc has a 385-foot wingspan and can support a payload of more than 500,000 pounds. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images
Gaza Strip
Smoke rises above the Gaza Strip from Israeli bombardment as an Israeli right wing activist runs during scuffles with Israeli troop near the Erez crossing, during a rally calling for the building of Israeli settlements in Gaza, on February 29, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Photo: OREN ZIV/AFP via Getty Images
Kostyantynivka, Ukraine
Local residents walk past the railway station destroyed by a Russian missile attack in Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region, on February 25, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images
Klietz, Germany
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (C), Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (L) and Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Oleksii Makeiev (R) speak to the media while standing in front of a Leopard 1A5 main battle tank at a military training center used for training Ukrainian crews on February 23, 2024 near Klietz, Germany. The Bundeswehr, Germany’s armed forces, along with Dutch trainers, is training Ukrainians on the Leopard 1A5 main battle tank and the Marder infantry fighting vehicle as part of an ongoing program to supply Ukraine with weaponry. Tomorrow will mark the 2nd anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as Russian forces appear to be gaining momentum against munitions-starved Ukrainian defenders. Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Kotomierz, Poland
This aerial view taken on February 25, 2024 shows piles of corn believed to have been exported from Ukraine lying on the ground next to train cars in the village of Kotomierz, Kuyavian-Pomeranian region, Poland on February 25, 2024. Eight wagons of a freight train containing corn, coming from Ukraine according to Kyiv, were opened and their contents dumped on a railway track in Poland on February 25, 2024, the Ukrainian government and Polish police announced. Photo: MATEUSZ SLODKOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images
Mexico City, Mexico
Popocatepetl volcano spews ash into the air, outside Mexico City on February 28, 2024. Ash spewing from the Popocatepetl volcano outside Mexico City on February 27, 2024 led some airlines to cancel around two dozen flights in and out of the Latin American capital, authorities said. Photo: JOSE CASTANARES/AFP via Getty Images
Vatican City
Pope Francis greets a newlywed couple during his weekly audience at the Paul VI Hall on February 28, 2024 in Vatican City, Vatican. At the conclusion of the Wednesday General Audience, Pope Francis invited the faithful to pray for Burkina Faso and for Haiti, and not to forget the people of Ukraine, of Palestine and Israel, and all those suffering due to war. Photo: Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images
Bucha, Ukraine
Liliya Katanenko and her son Matviy, 9, are embraced as they mourn at a funeral for her husband Andriy Katanenko who was killed near Avdiivka on February 21st on February 24, 2024 in Bucha, Ukraine. February 24 marks two years since Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, which has left tens of thousands dead and many more wounded, although neither country releases official casualty figures. The war has also sparked economic insecurity around the world, further isolated Russia from the West, and, while initially galvanizing NATO countries, has exposed tensions between Western allies over the scale and duration of military support to Ukraine. Two years on, the war shows no sign of ending, even while the frontlines have changed very little in recent months. Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images
Seville, Spain
Spain’s midfielder #10 Jennifer Hermoso lifts the trophy as her teammates celebrate winning during the podium ceremony after the UEFA Women’s Nations League final football match between Spain and France at the La Cartuja stadium in Seville, on February 28, 2024. Photo: JORGE GUERRERO/AFP via Getty Images
Caracas, Venezuela
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (C) and First Lady Cilia Flores (L) greet supporters during a rally to commemorate 20 years of the anti-imperialist declaration of the late former President Hugo Chavez in Caracas on February 29, 2024. Photo: FEDERICO PARRA/AFP via Getty Images
Berlin, Germany
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (C) gives a statement to the media as she sits with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan (L) and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov at Villa Borsig on the first day of peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan on February 28, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. The two-day talks are bringing together delegations from the two countries to resolve the two countries’ decades-old dispute over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
