Every week, Zaborona publishes photos that highlight important events of the last seven days in Ukraine and the world. This time, the editorial team selected photos of military medics working in a stabilization center in Toretsk, the US launch of a new satellite that will improve solar flare forecasts; the release of Julian Assange, the birthday celebration of twin pandas in a Chinese zoo, and the first day of the iconic Glastonbury 2024 music festival in the UK.
Pyongyang, North Korea
Participants attend a rally at the Mayday Stadium in Pyongyang on June 25, 2024, to mark the “Day of Struggle Against US imperialism”, on the 74th anniversary of the three-year Korean War, which began on June 25, 1950. Photo: KIM WON JIN/AFP via Getty Images
Lviv, Ukraine
Anya, 5-year-old daughter and Katya, wife of Vladyslav Korniychuk, a Ukrainian serviceman who died in action, mourn on his grave at Lychakiv cemetery on the Day of Mourning and Remembrance of the Victims of War in Lviv on June 22, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP via Getty Images
Canberra, Australia
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (C) raises his fist after arriving at Canberra Airport in Canberra on June 26, 2024, after he pleaded guilty at a US court in Saipan to a single count of conspiracy to obtain and disseminate US national defence information. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned home to Australia to start life as a free man June 26 after admitting he revealed US defence secrets in a deal that unlocked the door to his London prison cell. Photo: DAVID GRAY/AFP via Getty Images
Kharkiv, Ukraine
A rescuer and a service dog inspect the debris at the site of a destroyed residential building following an aerial bomb in the centre of Kharkiv, on June 22, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images
Ulanqab, China
The return capsule of the Chang’e-6 probe lands at the designated landing area on June 25, 2024 in Siziwang Banner, Ulanqab City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. The returner of the Chang’e-6 probe touched down on Earth on June 25, bringing back the world’s first samples collected from the moon’s far side, and marking another remarkable achievement in China’s space exploration endeavors. Photo: VCG/VCG via Getty Images
Toretsk, Ukraine
A Ukrainian wounded serviceman who was brought back from positions is treated by Ukrainian military medics at a stabilization point of the 41st Mechanized Brigade, in the Toretsk urban district, eastern Donetsk region, on June 22, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Compared to others in war-scarred east Ukraine, Toretsk, a mining town, was nestled in a relatively sleepy sector of the front line. Then, suddenly, the Russian assaults began, and life there deteriorated drastically. And with the heavily increased amount of rockets and air strikes that started raining down on Toretsk’s shaken residents this month and being afraid that Toretsk would face the same fate as other Ukrainian eastern towns that were attacked by Russia with its scorched-earth assault tactics, many people decided to leave the town, while others made the decision to stay. Photo: ROMAN PILIPEY/AFP via Getty Images
Paris, France
Models present creations by Christian Dior during the Haute-Couture Fall/Winter 2024 show as part of the Paris Fashion Week in Paris, on June 24, 2024. Photo: JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP via Getty Images
Yekaterinburg, Russia
US journalist Evan Gershkovich, accused of espionage, gestures from inside a glass defendants’ cage prior to a hearing in Yekaterinburg’s Sverdlovsk Regional Court on June 26, 2024. Photo: NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images
Vienna, Austria
Special leg prostheses for running are pictured in front of a flag of Ukrainian colours during an open training session of Ukrainian marathon runner Jana Stepanenko (not pictured) in the Vienna Prater in Vienna, Austria. The Ukrainian marathon runner Jana Stepanenko lost both legs in a Russian attack in 2022. Photo: TOBIAS STEINMAURER/APA/AFP via Getty Images
Corumba, Brazil
Aerial view of firefighters working on a fire outbreak in a rural area of Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil on June 26, 2024. A large fire broke out across the river from the city of Corumba, the gateway to Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands. Hundreds of fires are burning in the vast, wildlife-rich Pantanal which is experiencing record fires for this time of year. Photo: PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP via Getty Images
Glastonbury, England
Festival goers on skate boards in the Greenpeace field during day one of Glastonbury Festival 2024 at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 26, 2024 in Glastonbury, England. Founded by Michael Eavis in 1970, Glastonbury Festival features around 3,000 performances across over 80 stages. Renowned for its vibrant atmosphere and iconic Pyramid Stage, the festival offers a diverse lineup of music and arts, embodying a spirit of community, creativity, and environmental consciousness. Photo: Jim Dyson/Redferns
Chongqing, China
Two pairs of giant panda twins named Shuangshuang, Chongchong, Xixi, and Qingqing enjoy a birthday cake made of bamboo shoots and fruits during their fifth birthday party at Chongqing Zoo on June 23, 2024 in Chongqing, China. Photo: Li Hongbo/VCG via Getty Images
Lostallo, Switzerland
Workers stand amid debris and rocks near a house in the hamlet of Sorte, south of Lostallo in the Moesa Region in the Swiss canton of Graubunden (Grisons) after violent downpours caused floods and landslides on June 23, 2024. Swiss authorities in the southeastern canton of Grisons said on June 23, 2024 that they were searching for three people missing after heavy flooding the previous day in the region. Photo: PIERO CRUCIATTI/AFP via Getty Images
Kyiv, Ukraine
Participants dance during the celebration of the Pagan holiday of Ivan Kupala, a traditional holiday that has been observed in Ukraine since pre-Christian times, in Kyiv, on June 23, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Photo: ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images
Nairobi, Kenya
Kenya Police officers and security personnel take position to protect the Kenyan Parliament as protesters try to storm the building during a nationwide strike to protest against tax hikes and the Finance Bill 2024 in downtown Nairobi, on June 25, 2024. Kenyan police shot dead one protester near the country’s parliament Tuesday, a rights watchdog said as demonstrators angry over proposed tax hikes breached barricades and entered the government complex, where a fire erupted. The mainly Gen-Z-led rallies, which began last week, have taken President William Ruto’s government by surprise, with the Kenyan leader saying over the weekend that he was ready to speak to the protesters. Photo: LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images
Ruby, Arizona
A migrant family crosses through border fencing into the U.S. on June 26, 2024 in Ruby, Arizona. The Department of Homeland Security has reported a 40% drop in border crossings since U.S. President Joe Biden announced asylum restrictions. Biden has also announced an immigration relief plan, which promises a path to citizenship for approximately 500,000 undocumented immigrants married to or adopted by U.S. citizens. Day’s after Biden’s announcement, Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump announced to a podcast host that he would solidify green cards for foreign nationals who’ve received a U.S. college diploma. Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images
Merritt Island, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) weather satellite Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U (GOES-U) lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, June 25, 2024. The United States on June 25 launched a new satellite expected to significantly improve forecasts of solar flares and coronal mass ejections — huge plasma bubbles that can crash into Earth, disrupting power grids and communications. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the satellite into orbit took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:26 pm (2126 GMT), the US space agency announced. Photo: MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO/AFP via Getty Images
Almonte, Spain
Horses run past the Hermitage of El Rocio during the annual ‘Saca de las Yeguas'(round-up of the wild mares) in Almonte on June 26, 2024. Each year in late June, large herds of free-roaming horses are rounded up from the marshes and forests at the Donana National Park to be driven past the Hermitage of El Rocio, where they are blessed before heading on to run through the crowded streets of Almonte. Photo: CRISTINA QUICLER/AFP via Getty Images
Stuttgart, Germany
Oleksandr Zinchenko of Ukraine looks dejected with teammates, as Ukraine are eliminated from EURO 2024 after finishing in fourth place in Group E, after the UEFA EURO 2024 group stage match between Ukraine and Belgium at Stuttgart Arena on June 26, 2024 in Stuttgart, Germany. Photo: Clive Mason/Getty Images