A make-up artist recognised a victim of the Bucha massacre by her manicure amongst horrific scenes of death and destruction.
The hand in a heartbreaking picture has been identified as belonging to 52-year-old Iryna Filkina.
Anastasiia Subacheva, a make-up artist from the nearby city of Gostomel, recognised the perfectly manicured fingers with red and white nail polish that had been photographed lying on the gravel.
Subacheva said she felt her heart break the moment she spotted the lifeless hand on the street after Russian forces launched a barbaric attack on the city.
She said: "When I saw it, I felt physically like my heart started to break."
Ms. Subacheva, who has worked as a make-up artist in Bucha for five years, said she knew a lot of women there because she did their beauty treatments, reports the New York Times.
Horrifically, her death appears to have captured in drone footage as she was pushing her bicycle home.
The harrowing video suggests she was struck by a Russian tank, the armoured vehicle opening fire on the defenceless woman as she turned the corner.
Her daughter - who fled Bucha before Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine - said that she pleaded with her mother not to cycle home on the day that she was killed.
Iryna was a heating station operator who had reportedly reached out to Ms. Subacheva to inquire about makeup classes in a bid to follow her dream of becoming popular and increasing the number of her Instagram followers.
It was earlier reported Ukrainian women are resorting to cutting off their hair in an attempt to stop Russians from raping them, according to a town’s mayor.
In one account two teenage girls were raped in Ivankiv, a small town recently liberated from Russian occupiers.
Deputy mayor Maryna Beschastna said the town's women are cutting off their hair to be “less attractive” to the troops, ITV reported.
She said: “There was a case in one village, two sister were raped… girls of 15 and 16… children.
It comes after Ukrainian officials have vowed to hunt down the "butchers of Bucha" after hundreds of dead civilians were discovered.
Kyiv intelligence sources have named Lt Colonel Azatbek Omurbekov - who leads the 64th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade which occupied the region - as the commander in the area.
Growing evidence points to barbarism in Bucha with local women and children raped and shot and demands are growing for accountability over atrocities by Vladimir Putin's forces.
Zelensky has warned that worse evidence of mass killings of civilians by Moscow will emerge as the Russian president repositions his troops to the south-east.
The Ukrainian leader accused Moscow of committing "real genocide", as he appeared visibly emotional, flanked by his soldiers and wearing a bullet-proof vest.
