The father of Ukrainian murder victim Iryna Zarutska could not attend her funeral in Charlotte, North Carolina because of strict rules banning fighting age men from leaving Ukraine, it emerged on Wednesday.
Stanislav Zarutskyi was reportedly 'devastated' not to be able to pay his last respects after his beautiful daughter was brutally stabbed to death on a train, allegedly by homeless career criminal Decarlos Brown Jr.
Iryna's murder last month – captured in chilling CCTV footage – has sparked nationwide shock, with President Donald Trump calling the killing 'horrible' and hinting that the city could be the next to see the National Guard deployed.
There was widespread anger that the story was initially ignored by the national liberal media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and CNN.
Iryna, then aged just 20, was forced to emigrate to the US three years ago at the start of Vladimir Putin's brutal war, along with her mother Anna, and two siblings, leaving her father Stanlislav in Ukraine as he is under the age of 60 and unable to leave.
