Every week, Zaborona selects 20 photos of the past seven days’ main events in Ukraine and the world. This time, our photo editor selected photos from the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, Easter celebrations in Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, the March of the Living in Auschwitz in honor of the Holocaust victims, the ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the end of the Indochina War, and the commemoration of the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in Lviv and Kyiv.
Donetsk region, Ukraine
A chaplain blesses traditional cakes and eggs for Ukrainian servicemen of the 59th brigade during his visit to their position to celebrate Orthodox Easter in an undisclosed location in the Donetsk region on May 5, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images
Tsyrkuny, Ukraine
Father Oleh and parishioners of the St. Nicholas Church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) make a traditional Easter round of the church in the village of Tsyrkuny, Kharkiv region, May 5, 2024. Photo: Stanislav Ostrous / Zaborona
Marseille, France
French former football player Basile Boli (R) holds the Olympic Torch and lights up the torch of French founder of Olympique de Marseille supporters club “Dodger’s Marseille” Colette Cataldo as part of the Olympic and Paralympic Torch Relays at the Notre Dame de la Garde Basilica, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in Marseille, southeastern France, on May 9, 2024. The transfer of the flame onshore from a 19th-century tall ship will mark the start of a 12,000-kilometre (7,500-mile) torch relay across mainland France and the country’s far-flung overseas territories. Photo: CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP via Getty Images
This photograph shows a police dog from the RAID french national police unit specialized in the search of explosives inspects a Boston Dynamics dog robot in the CMA CGM Tangram innovation and formation campus, in Marseille, on May 8, 2024, ahead of a visit by the French President. Photo: LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Rafah, Gaza Strip
Children in Rafah city queue to receive a bowl of food for their families from charity organizations, in Rafah, Gaza on May 03, 2024. As the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip continues unabated, the full embargo imposed on the territory has left Palestinians unable to obtain many vital needs, including basic food supplies. Photo: Doaa Albaz/Anadolu via Getty Images
Athens, Greece
Riot police officers clash with pro-Palestinian protestors during a rally in support of Palestinians, outside the Egyptian Embassy in Athens on May 7, 2024. Photo: Angelos TZORTZINIS / AFP) Photo: ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP via Getty Images
Oświęcim, Poland
Wooden plaques with messages and prayers that have been placed by participants on a railtrack leading to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Brzezinka (Birkenau) near Oswiecim (Auschwitz), Poland are pictured on May 6, 2024 during the annual March of The Living to honour the victims of the Holocaust at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz II-Birkenau. According to the organisers, “55 Holocaust survivors from around the world, including Holocaust survivors who were victims of October 7”, will be present in Oswiecim during the 2024 “March of the Living”, “to highlight global solidarity with the Jewish People amid global rise in antisemitism”. Photo: WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images
Dien Bien Phu City, Vietnam
Men dressed as frontline workers dating from the First Indochina War parade by a poster of the late Vietnam’s general Vo Nguyen Giap as Vietnam marks the 70th anniversary of the 1954 Dien Bien Phu battle on May 7, 2024 in Dien Bien Phu City, Dien Bien Province, Vietnam. More than 12,000 participants are set to take part in the 70th-anniversary ceremony of the Dien Bien Phu battle, a significant event in the First Indochina War, which will culminate in a grand parade on May 7 at Dien Bien Province’s stadium, featuring the air force, fireworks force, and parade force. The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was one of the most major confrontations in the First Indochina War, fought between the Viet Minh Communist Revolutionaries and the French Union’s French Far East Expeditionary Corps. Lasting from March 13 to May 7, 1954, this decisive battle ended with a victory for the Vietnamese side, effectively terminating the French presence in Indochina and leading to the signing of the Geneva Accords. Photo: Linh Pham/Getty Images
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Aerial view of the flooded Beira-Rio stadium of the Brazilian football team Internacional in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, on May 7, 2024. The rains may have abated, but floodwaters continued their assault on southern Brazil Monday, with hundreds of municipalities in ruins amid fears that food and drinking water may soon run out. Photo: ANSELMO CUNHA/AFP via Getty Images
Laoag, Philippines
U.S. troops watch as a Javelin missile hits a target at sea during a counter landing live fire exercise as part of U.S.-Philippines joint military exercises on May 06, 2024 in Laoag, Ilocos Norte province, Philippines. The Philippines and the United States initiated their largest Balikatan (shoulder-to-shoulder) joint military exercises, involving 16,000 troops, with drills extending beyond the Philippines’ territorial sea into the contentious South China Sea, directly opposing China’s broad claims. The exercises also include drills in the Philippines’ northern Cagayan province, near Taiwan. These war games follow an incident where the Philippines accused China of attacking their ships with water cannons near the disputed Scarborough Shoal, damaging vessels and injuring crew members. Photo: Ezra Acayan/Getty Images
Kharkiv, Ukraine
A firefighter puts out a fire with a fire hose on May 4, 2024 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. According to the Head of the local regional administration, Oleh Syniehubov, the Russian army attacked the city with kamikaze drones at night. The attack caused a fire at a service station and injured three people, including a 13-year-old girl and an elderly woman. Photo: Viacheslav Mavrychev/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC “UA:PBC”/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
US pop star Madonna performs onstage during a free concert at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 4, 2024. Madonna ended her “The Celebration Tour” with a performance attended by some 1.5 million enthusiastic fans. Photo by PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP via Getty Images
San Francisco, California
California sea lions lounge on docks at Pier 39 on May 05, 2024 in San Francisco, California. Over 1,000 California sea lions are hanging out on the docks at popular San Francisco tourist destination Pier 39. The surge in number of sea lions in the area is due to large schools of anchovies and herring in the bay waters that will allow them to fuel up before mating season next month. The sea lions have been a top attraction at Pier 39 for nearly 35 years. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Lviv, Ukraine
A remembrance poppy is seen on a Ukrainian soldier’s uniform during a ceremony at the site of the former Stalag 328 camp in Lviv on May 8, 2024, to mark the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation, and the 79th anniversary of the victory over Nazism and the end of the World War II in Europe. Stalag 328 was a Nazi camp for Soviet prisoners of war which existed in Lviv in 1941-1944. Approximately 284,000 persons went through these camps during its existence. 142,000 of them died here due to sickness, hunger or executions. Photo: YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP via Getty Images
Kyiv, Ukraine
An elderly man places flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the WWII memorial on the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II, in Kyiv, on May 8, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: ROMAN PILIPEY/AFP via Getty Images
Moscow, Russia
Russian servicemen attend the Victory Day military parade on Red Square in Moscow on May 9, 2024. Russia celebrates the 79th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. Photo: NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images
Incheon, South Korea
A swarm of 1,000 drones forms patterns in the night sky during a drone light show as part of the 2024 Korea Drone Expo in Incheon on May 9, 2024. Photo: JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images
Istanbul, Turkey
An employee at Plant Factory, checks the growth of greens cultivated in a vertical farming system on May 08, 2024 in Istanbul, Turkey. Plant Factory is Turkey’s first commercial vertical farm, and after eight years of research and development, the company has begun shipping vertically grown greens to supermarkets and restaurants in Istanbul over the past year. Vertical farming yields more efficiently all year round and minimizes environmental impact by using less water and soil, requiring less space, and eliminating the need for pesticides. The controlled environment uses LED lights, controlled temperature and humidity, to create premium growth conditions. Photo: Chris McGrath/Getty Images
Stord, Norway
Workers gather at the Aker Solutions’ shipyard in Stord, Norway on May 7, 2024 during a ceremony prior to the planned departure of Norway’s largest floating production ship ‘Johan Castberg’ for the ‘Johan Castberg’ field in the Barents Sea. The ship, which arrived in Stord for completion in April 2022, will soon be finished and during the summer of 2024 will set course for the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea, located off the northern coasts of Norway. Production at the Johan Castberg field, which comprises three oil fields – Johan Castberg (formerly Skrugard), Havis, and Drivis – is scheduled to start in the fourth quarter of 2024 and is planned for 30 years, according to operator Equinor. Equinor, Var Energi and Petoro partner in the project. Photo: SILJE KATRINE ROBINSON/NTB/AFP via Getty Images
