Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Issue #988 Story of the Week: Published TUESDAY May 6, 2025: ‘Russia’s FOREVER WAR’ by ZUMA Press via TASS photo-journalist Alexei Konovalov: The US and Europe must invest in resisting Russia now or pay a far greater cost later. Russia is likely to walk away from the war in Ukraine emboldened and, once it has reconstituted its military capacity, spoiling for another fight to revise the security order in Europe. Giving in to Russia’s demands will not make it any easier or cheaper to defend Europe, look at the events of the past two decades. At every turn, the war in Georgia in 2008, Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine in 2014, and its deployment of troops to Syria in 2015, Putin has grown only more willing to take risks as he comes to believe that doing so pays off. The Kremlin will look to pocket any concessions from the West for ending the current war, such as sanctions relief, to strengthen its hand for the next one. Russia is clearly investing in a transformation of its military. It’s the real reason that Europe is mobilizing. Welcome to ‘Russia’s FOREVER WAR’ .
Pope Francis dies on Easter Monday, a new Russian spring offensive in Ukraine, an unprecedented power outage in Spain and Israeli airstrikes resume in Gaza: The APRIL 2025 Pictures Of the Month for @ZUMApress is now published. PLEASE SHARE! #photojournalism www.thepicturesofthemonth.com
Sit back and enjoy “The Pictures of the Month” (POM) presented by Scott Mc Kiernan and ZUMA Press. ZUMA received over one million images shot by professional photographers, all shot in the month of April.
Photographers represented by ZUMA Press covered the four corners of the world to bring pictures that need to be seen! POM shows the best work of these photojournalists, documenting the most important events of the past month.
ZUMA Press Wire’s talented award-winning picture editing staff of Mark Avery, Jim Colton, Jessica Cotsonas, Robin Loznak, Scott Mc Kiernan, Julie Rogers, Ruaridh Stewart, Shalan Stewart, whom with the fine ZUMA support staff: Florence Combes, John Collett, Katrina Kochneva, Pat Johnson, Julie Mason, Jeremy Mc Kiernan and Stan Sholik contributed to make this Lucie & Webby winning monthly movie possible. Hope you enjoy and then if so, pass the word to others 🙂
PHOTOGRAPHERS Aaron Chown • Ahmed Ibrahim • Alberto Gardin • Alessia Giuliani • Alex Zea • Amy Katz • Andreas Gora • Andreas Stroh • Andrew Leyden • Andrew Milligan • Andrew Parsons • Andrew Roth • Angelo Carconi • Aurore Marechal • Basit Zargar • Ben Birchall • Bernd Wuestneck • Billy Bennight • Brian Cahn • Brian McLean • Bruno Fahy • Carol Guzy • Cat Morley • Cecilia Fabiano • Cedar Barnes • Cheng Yiheng • Christine Ongsiek • Christoph Reichwein • Christopher Drost • Cris Faga • Daniel DeSlover • Danny Lawson • Dasarath Deka • Dave Decker • David Allignon • David Canales • David Santiago • Didier Lebrun • Dirk Shadd • Dominic Gwinn • Edoardo Marangon • Emilio Fraile • Eric Lalmand • Eric Vandeville • Evandro Inetti • Gina Randazzo • Guido Kirchner • Habboub Ramez • Harry Langer • Hendrik Schmidt • Holden Smith • Ian West • Jack Abuin • Javier Rojas • Jeff M. Brown • Jennifer Graylock • Jens Beuttner • Jens Kalaene • Jesus Merida • Jim West • Jonathan Alcorn • Jose Oliva • Juan Carlos Lucas • Julian Stratenschulte • Jun Hyosang • Kathy Hutchins • Katrin Requadt • Kenosis Yap • Leco Viana • Luis Santana • Luis Soto • Ma Jinrui • Marc Demeure • Marco Di Gianvito • Marco Iacobucci • Maria Grazia Picciarella • Marius Simensen • Mark Edward Harris • Martin Pope • Martyn Wheatley • Mathias Schulz • Michael Kappeler • Mickael Chavet • Miguel Lemos • Mikhail Sinitsyn • Mikkel Berg Pedersen • Mimmo Carriero • Moiz Salhi • Nancy Kaszerman • Nico Vereecken • Nikola Kristc • Noushad Thekkayil • Oliver Weiken • Omar Ashtawy • Oscar J. Barroso • Owen Humphreys • Patrice Noel • Patrick Pleul • Peter Byrne • Petter Arvidson • Riccardo Antimiani • Ringo Chiu • Robin Loznak • Ronen Tivony • Rouelle Umali • Saqib Majeed • Sebastian Kahnert • Sergei Bulkin • Skanda Gautam • Slavek Ruta • Soeren Stache • Song Yanhua • Sonia Moskowitz Gordon • Stefano Carofei • Stefano Costantino • Stefano Spaziani • Stephen Lock • Stephen M. Dowell • Suh Jeen Moon • Sujal Bajracharya • Sun Fei • Sunil Sharma • Syed Mahabubul Kader • Titov Yevhen • Tom Goyvaerts • Tomas Sisk • Utrecht Robin • Vit Simanek • Vuk Valcic • Wu Xiaoling • Yelena Sinitsyna • Yevgeny Yepanchintsev • Yuri Gripas • Zhai Jianlan
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