Mascara from Amsterdam

 

Outrage has been expressed in Russia and Ukraine over a young woman who allegedly boasted on her social media site about using looted mascara from the Malaysian air crash site.

Identified as Ekaterina Parkhomenko from Torez, close to where the Boeing 777 hit the ground after being shot out of the sky, she posted a picture of a blue mascara bottle, say reports.

Her Instagram account then carried two selfies taken with an iPhone which were said to show her after she had applied the Catrice mascara. 

The caption read: 'Mascara from Amsterdam, or if to be precise from the field. Well, you understand.'

When she is asked by her own followers if she was joking - and how she got the mascara - she answered: 'An acquaintance of mine, a looter, gave it to me.'

 

The woman - her age is not known - describes herself as a 'separatist' who 'feels sick and hates everything Ukrainian'.

Bloggers in both Russia and Ukraine have questioned whether the posting was a provocation amid a huge propaganda war from both sides, but a number of well-known web writers believe it to be genuine and have expressed horror. 

The woman's sites seem to have been well established before they were suddenly removed in the wake of the storm of disgust over this posting from both Ukrainians and Russians.

One said: 'It's good that at least you are not finishing their food off... ?'

She replied: 'But if you wish I can send you the food, and knickers....'

Another asked her: 'Are you normal there?'

She replied 'no' - and soon afterwards deleted her Instagram account and her presence on other social media sites as she was faced with a torrent of abusive comments.

Leading Russian blogger Bozhena Rysnka used her Facebook to declare: 'It is lower than low to pick up mascara from the deceased.'

The woman apparently had no sense she had done anything wrong, she said.

She '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?'

 Kiev-based blogger Natalia Belous said despairingly: 'And this is a so-called civilian. At least she is not running around with a machine gun.

'Can you imagine what this friend of hers, that 'looter', is like?'

A comment read: 'Even if it is a fake posting - but I don't think so - it is sick, completely sick, from whoever is responsible.'