A Ukrainian woman sparked outrage after she allegedly posted Instagram pictures of mascara that was stolen from the site where Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed last Thursday, according to the UK's Daily Mail.
Ekaterina Parkhomenko, a self-proclaimed separatist from Torez, used her iPhone to upload pictures of her holding a blue mascara bottle she claims was taken from the field where 298 people died after their plane was shot out of the sky on July 17. Most of the victims were from the Netherlands.
"Mascara from Amsterdam, or if to be precise from the field. Well, you understand," reads the photo's caption, according to the Daily Mail.
Parkhomenko, whose age is unclear, also posted a picture of her allegedly wearing the same mascara looted from the field. Users asked the woman if she was serious and if she took the makeup herself.
"An acquaintance of mine, a looter, gave it to me," she reportedly wrote.
Parkhomenko's Instagram and other social media accounts were deleted soon after the pictures appeared, but not before Ukrainians and Russians unleashed a barrage of insults on the woman.
"Are you normal there?" one user asked the separatist, according to the newspaper. "No," the woman replied.
"It is lower than low to pick up mascara from the deceased," Bozhena Rysnka, a Russian blogger, wrote before apparently comparing Parkhomenko to a dog.
She is "simply an animal, like a dog that gets a pack of biscuits falling from the sky. Can you be angry with a dog for eating it?" the blogger wrote according to the Daily Mail.
Other pictures have surfaced of people rummaging through debris from the Boeing 777, which was en route to Malaysia when it was shot down in eastern Ukraine by suspected pro-Russian separatists. Igor Strelkov, leader of the pro-Russian rebels, reportedly admitted that separatists stole items from the dead passengers, according to the Daily Mail.
In the meantime, citizens across the Netherlands were in mourning as the bodies of 74 victims arrived on Friday, the third shipment of bodies flown home to their loved ones this week.
