Ucraina, a hand with red nail polish, to the ground. She dreamed of becoming a make-up artist Iryna Filkinabut in the meantime she worked as a worker in a central heating in Buchathe Ukrainian city where the massacre of civilians by the Russiansimmortalized by the images that have shocked the world.
Massacre of Bucha, that hand with the red nail polish …
And among the photos more heartbreaking than that tragedy, Irina Filkina’s hand treated with red nail polish it has already become a symbol of the horror unfolding in the war in Ukraine.
The body was found lying on the side of the road next to his bicycle, his arm stretched out at his side. The red and pink nails. A normal womanwho outside the factory used social media like everyone else to show her beauty tutorials and that shortly before the outbreak of the war, she had just enrolled in a course for beauticians.
A dream destroyed in an instant
And it was his teacher, Anastasiia Subachevato recognize that manicured hand that he had seen so many times in action with brushes, eye shadows and lipsticks.
“When I saw the photo, I felt like my heart was breakingThe woman told the New York Times. She also explained that Filkina had phoned her in February to get information on make-up courses because her dream was to become a well-known make-up artist.
Massacre of Bucha, Filkina’s daughter: “The war stole my world”
Always the newspaper tells that the daughter, Olha Shchyrukshe fled Bucha immediately after Vladimir Putin’s invasion on February 24, but her mother had not yet left.
She was informed of her mother’s death on March 6, but despite this, for days he hoped she was still alive. Then she was sent a video showing her body on the ground: “I would have recognized her even without her red nails,” said her daughter.
“Now all that I can do is cry, but sometimes that doesn’t work either»Wrote the girl in a long Instagram post in memory of the mother.
«For those who watch the news from afar, this photo strikes differently from how it affects those who are here. Some people even doubt it actually happened. But for me this image is more alive than ever. The war didn’t just come to my country. She came to my house and took, no, to be more precise, he stole … my universe” he said.
The girl is now just waiting to bury the body. At the moment, in fact, he cannot do it, as the Ukrainian authorities have taken him away along with many other bodies to ascertain the causes of his death and investigate Russian crimes.
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