Every week, Zaborona publishes photos that highlight important events of the last seven days in Ukraine and around the world. This time, the editorial team has selected images of a humanoid robot working at a car factory in China, students killed during anti-government protests in Bangladesh, a bus driving course for Ukrainian women, and the gold medals won by the Ukrainian fencing team at the Olympics in Paris.
Ukraine
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) speaks as he stands in front of an F-16 fighter jet during a ceremony held to mark Ukrainian Air Forces Day at an undisclosed location on August 4, 2024. Ukraine has received its first batch of US-made F-16 fighter jets, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, showing journalists several aircraft that Kyiv hopes will help beat back Russian forces. Photo: SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images
This photograph taken on August 6, 2024 shows a robot dog during a demostration of its capabilities at an undisclosed location in Ukraine, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Stealthy and agile, robot dogs could soon become a common sight on the front in Ukraine, replacing soldiers for perilous missions like spying on Russian trenches or detecting mines. Photo: GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images
Moscow, Russia
In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state owned Sputnik agency, Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin (L) attends a remote meeting with Kursk Region Governov, Alexei Smirnov via video call in Moscow, on August 8, 2024. Russian forces are still facing a major incursion by Ukrainian troops on their soil, in the Kursk border region, on August 8, 2024, an unexpected setback for the Kremlin whose army was to its advantage until then on the front. Photo: GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Woellnau, Germany
Participants enjoy themselves in the mud after a game during the 14th German Mud Football Championship in Woellnau, eastern Germany on August 03, 2024. Photo: JENS SCHLUETER/AFP via Getty Images
Kremenets, Ukraine
Ukrainian female trainees from diverse cities across Ukraine, are photographed during a bus-drive training course in Kremenets City, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine on July 23, 2024. The bus-drive course aims to empower Ukrainian women to obtain class D licenses for driving passengers busses, including veteran women, women from military families, IDP’s, single mothers and women over 50. Photo: Narciso Contreras/Anadolu via Getty Images
Kharkiv, Ukraine
People with rescue dogs stand not far from a damaged building after a Russian missile attack on August 6, 2024 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. According to Mayor of Kharkiv Ihor Terekhov, the Russian army shelled the city center in the morning. The strike injured eight people, including a child. Fifteen high-rise buildings and 25 cars were damaged. Photo: Ivan Samoilov/Gwara Media/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
Pacifica, California
A dog surfer shreds some waves during the World Dog Surfing Championships at Linda Mar Beach on August 3, 2024 in Pacifica, Northern California. Photo: Liu Guanguan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images
West Bank
A Palestinian man stands next to overturn cars hanging between walls following an Israeli raid in Jenin city in the occupied West Bank on August 6, 2024. Palestinian officials said Israeli forces killed 12 people in three separate raids in the northern West Bank on August 6, as violence in the occupied territory showed no sign of abating. Photo: JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images
Hanoi, Vietnam
Former Vietnamese property and aviation tycoon Trinh Van Quyet (C) is escorted by policemen from Hanoi People’s Court after his trial on fraud charges in Hanoi on August 5, 2024. Trinh Van Quyet, who owned the FLC empire of luxury resorts, golf courses, and budget carrier Bamboo Airways, was jailed for 21 years on August 5 for fraud and stock market manipulation worth $146 million, state media said. Photo: ANH TUC/AFP via Getty Images
Sicily, Italy
Lava, steam and ashes spew from a crater of the Mount Etna volcano early on August 4, 2024 in Sicily. Photo: GIUSEPPE DISTEFANO/Etna Walk/AFP via Getty Images
Upper Galilee, Israel
Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, on August 4, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Lebanon’s Hezbollah fighters. Middle East tensions soared Saturday as Iran and its allies readied their response to the assassination of Hamas’s political leader, blamed on Israel, spurring fears of a regional war. Photo: JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images
London, England
Protesters march in London during the “National March for Gaza”, calling to “end the genocide”, “stop arming Israel” and “no Middle East war” on August 3, 2024. The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Saturday that at least 39,550 people have been killed in nearly 10 months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants. The toll includes 70 deaths in 48 hours, according to ministry figures, which also list 91,280 people as having been wounded in the Gaza Strip since the war began when Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7. Photo: CARLOS JASSO/AFP via Getty Images
Sanaa, Yemen
Yemenis wave flags and lift placards of Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr, who was killed in an Israeli strike, and slain Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, during a rally in the Huthi-controlled capital Sanaa on August 2, 2024, denouncing their killing, amid the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. Haniyeh, the Palestinian armed group’s political chief, who was killed on July 31 in the Iranian capital Tehran, played a key role in mediated talks aimed at ending nearly 10 months of war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza. Photo: ABDALLAH ADEL/AFP via Getty Images
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Artists perform on flyboards during the Canal Parade on August 3, 2024 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amnesty International navigates an empty boat on the canals of Amsterdam during the Canal Parade to protest against human rights violations of the LGBTQIA+ community. Photo: Pierre Crom/Getty Images
Vienna, Austria
A fan of US singer Taylor Swift – a swiftie – presents her beaded bracelets near the Swiftie Tree in Cornelius Strasse street in Vienna, Austria, on August 8, 2024. A 19-year-old Islamic State sympathiser planned a suicide attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna designed to kill many people, the country’s intelligence agency said. Austrian authorities detained two suspects for allegedly plotting to attack this week’s Vienna concerts by the US star, which organisers cancelled at the last minute. Photo: ALEX HALADA/AFP via Getty Images
Berlin, Germany
Russian opposition figure Ilya Yashin addresses the audience during an event at the Mauerpark in Berlin, on August 7, 2024, few days after he has been released from Russia as political prisoner in one of the biggest prisoner swaps between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. A total of 26 people, including two minors, from the United States, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Belarus and Russia are involved in one of the biggest East-West prisoner swaps since the Cold War. Photo: RALF HIRSCHBERGER/AFP via Getty Images
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Aerial view of 4 dead bodies are brought from Dhaka Medical College who have been killed during the protest to Central Shahid Minar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 4 July 2024. The anti-discrimination student Movement announced the first day of the non-cooperation movement. Photo: Habibul Haque/Drik/Getty Images
Ningbo, Zhejiang Province of China
A humanoid robot “staff” called Walker S Lite, developed by UBTech, moves a heavy load onto an automated guided vehicle (AGV) in Zeekr’s 5G-enabled smart factory on August 5, 2024 in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province of China. Ubtech Robotics, China’s biggest manufacturer of educational and humanoid robots, said on August 5 that it has forged strategic partnerships with Chinese automotive giant Geely Holding Group and Chinese automated equipment maker Miracle Automation Engineering Co. to drive the integration of humanoid robots in the intelligent manufacturing of automobiles and components. Photo: Peng Peng, Ni Yanqiang/Zhejiang Daily Press Group/VCG via Getty Images
Paris, France
Gold medallists of Ukraine’s team Ukraine’s Olena Kravatska, Ukraine’s Alina Komashchuk Ukraine’s Olga Kharlan and Ukraine’s Yuliia Bakastova celebrate on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women’s sabre team competition during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Grand Palais in Paris, on August 3, 2024. Photo: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images
