Every week, Zaborona publishes 20 photos covering important events of the last seven days. This time, we selected photos from the farewell to the commander of the OUN volunteer battalion Mykola Kokhanivsky in Kyiv, the aftermath of the strike on a shelter school in the Gaza Strip, the ten-year commemoration of the downing of the Malaysian Airlines passenger plane MH17 by Russia, and of the extreme heat in Ukraine.
Sicily, Italy
A person watches a cloud and lava erupting over the Mount Etna volcano in erruption in Sicily on July 15, 2024. Sicily’s Catania airport began gradually reopening for flights on July 5, 2024, after they were temporarily suspended following an eruption from Mount Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano. Photo: GIUSEPPE DISTEFANO/AFP via Getty Images
Najaf, Iraq
Shiite Muslims take part in a flagellation ritual of Ashura, commemorating the 7th century killing of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussein, in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf early on July 17, 2024. Photo: QASSEM AL-KAABI/AFP via Getty Images
Jalisco State, Mexico
A worker pours lime on top of death fish in the shore of Santiago River, one of the most polluted rivers in Mexico, in Juanacatlan, Jalisco State, Mexico on July 17, 2024. Local government is conducting studies to determine the causes of the massive fish mortality in the Santiago river, and is working to prevent infections in the municipalities nearby. Photo: ULISES RUIZ/AFP via Getty Images
Koncha-Zaspa, Ukraine
Daria Varfolomeeva, a Ukrainian epee fencer, is seen during preparation training for the Olympic Games in Paris at the Ukrainian National Olympic Base training camp in Koncha-Zaspa on July 17, 2024 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukraine will send more than 100 athletes to the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, a smaller number than it sent to the Tokyo 2021 games, before Russia’s full-scale invasion. Photo: Andriy Dubchak/Frontliner/Getty Images
Kyiv, Ukraine
A serviceman is paying his last respects to the commander of the OUN volunteer battalion, Mykola Kokhanivskyi, who died near Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region on June 10, during a memorial service at St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 16, 2024. Photo: Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Rome, Italy
A tiger eats frozen meat to cool off at the “Bioparco” zoo during a heat wave in Rome on July 18, 2024. Photo: TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images
Paris, France
French football Olympics 2024 coach Thierry Henry (L) poses for a picture next to Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics Organising Committee (Cojo) Tony Estanguet (C) and Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo during the inauguration of a trunk for the Olympic torch, custom-designed and manufactured by Louis Vuitton, an LVMH brand partner of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, displayed on the Champs-Elysees avenue, on the sides of the Bastille Day military parade in Paris on July 14, 2024. Photo: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo swims in the Seine, in Paris on July 17, 2024, to demonstrate that the river is clean enough to host the outdoor swimming events at the Paris Olympics later this month. Despite an investment of 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) to prevent sewage leaks into the waterway, the Seine has been causing suspense in the run-up to the opening of the Paris Games on July 26 after repeatedly failing water quality tests. But since the beginning of July, with heavy rains finally giving way to sunnier weather, samples have shown the river to be ready for the open-water swimming and triathlon — and for 65-year-old Hidalgo. Photo: JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP via Getty Images
Nam Phi, Thailand
Snake farmer Emilio Malucchi (L) inspects a snake skin at Closed Cycle Breeding International, a snake breeding farm that provides snake skins for the fashion market in Nam Phi in Thailand’s northern Uttaradit province on July 15, 2024. In a warehouse in the lush humid farmlands of central Thailand, thousands of pythons lie coiled in containers, rearing and striking at the glass as people pass by. Photo: LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images
Sion, Switzerland
Swiss initiator of the Sun-powered stratospheric SolarStratos plane Raphael Domjan inspects a wing after landing in Sion airport, on July 18, 2024. The stratospheric SolarStratos plane was moved to its new base in Payerne ahead of it 10.000 meters altitude world record attempt, the first time for a manned solar-powered airplane into the stratosphere. This record-breaking flight, a step towards the stratospheric flight, is planned for the summer 2025. Photo: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images
Buenos Aires, Argentina
People hold pictures of victims during a ceremony to commemorate the anniversary the Mutual Israelite Association of Argentina (AMIA) bombing attack in Buenos Aires on July 18, 2024. 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the 1994 bombing attack of the AMIA in Buenos Aires, which left 85 dead and more than 300 wounded. Photo: TOMAS CUESTA/AFP via Getty Images
Perranporth, England
Aerial images as thousands of England football fans gather on the beach at the Watering Hole, to watch live coverage of the match as England faced Spain in the men’s UEFA Euro 2024 final on July 14, 2024 in Perranporth, Cornwall, England. The match was held at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. Photo: Hugh Hastings/Getty Images
Mogadishu, Somali
A woman walks past debris and destruction at a cafe in Mogadishu on July 15, 2024 following a car bomb blast where five people were killed where football fans were watching the Euro 2024 final late on July 14, 2024. Photo: HASSAN ALI ELMI/AFP via Getty Images
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Wags the dog wears a button featuring a photo of the moment after the attempted assassination on former president Donald Trump outside the Fiserv Forum during the third day of the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2024. Days after he survived an assassination attempt Donald Trump won formal nomination as the Republican presidential candidate and picked Ohio US Senator J.D. Vance for running mate. Photo: NICK OXFORD/AFP via Getty Images
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Smoke rises from the burning vehicles after protesters set them on fire near the Disaster Management Directorate office, during the ongoing anti-quota protest in Dhaka on July 18, 2024. Bangladeshi students set fire to the country’s state broadcaster on July 18, a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina appeared on the network seeking to calm escalating clashes that have killed at least 32 people. Photo: -/AFP via Getty Images
Guadalajara, Mexico
A group of vets examines a sedated male African lion during his annual medical checkup at the Centro Integral de Medicina y Bienestar Animal (CIMBA), the new space open to the public at the Guadalajara Zoo in Guadalajara, Jalisco State, Mexico, on July 15, 2024. The new facilities allow visitors to observe the scheduled procedures of various animals of the more than 6,000 that the Zoo has in existence. Photo: ULISES RUIZ/AFP via Getty Images
Kyiv, Ukraine
People relax on the town beach on July 14, 2024 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukraine has been suffering from extreme heat for the past few weeks. In some regions, particularly in the south, the temperature has already exceeded +40 degrees Celsius. The situation is complicated by the lack of precipitation and electricity outages. Photo: Oleksandr Magula/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC “UA:PBC”/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
Gaza Strip
A wounded Palestinian girl is treated at the al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat refugee Camp after the Israeli military bombardment of the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) run Abu Oreiban school, turned shelter, where internally displaced Palestinians are living, in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip on July 14, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. The strike on the UN-run Abu Oreiban site in central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp was the fifth on a school-turned-shelter in eight days. The Abu Oreiban school was housing “thousands of displaced people,” civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP, adding that most of the dead were women and children. Photo: EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
A visitor looks at a stainless steel ellipsoidal sculpture in which the names of each victim of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 plane crash are engraved at the Park Vijfhuizen near Amsterdam Schiphol airport, on July 18, 2024, following the tenth commemoration of the victims of the plane crash, carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. The memorial consists of an amphitheatre surrounded by 298 trees, which were for the most part planted by the victims’ relatives, representing each passenger or crew member. This in turn is surrounded by sunflower fields, echoing the site of the crashed aircraft in the Ukrainian sunflower fields. Photo: NICK GAMMON/AFP via Getty Images
