CHARLOTTE — The father of the Ukrainian refugee knifed to death on a Charlotte train had to miss her funeral in North Carolina because he is stuck at home due to Russia’s invasion — inflicting yet another scar on a family that fled the war for the comparative safety of the US.

Iryna Zarutska, 23, was buried in Charlotte on Aug. 27, but her father was unable to leave Ukraine because he is of fighting-age and required to remain in the country while its war rages on.

“He had to stay back. He didn’t come for the funeral,” said a neighbor of Zarutska’s family in Charlotte. 4

“He’s still there for whatever the war time rules are,” the neighbor added.

Zarutska was stabbed to death on Aug. 22 while she rode a Charlotte light rail train home from work. Terrifying footage captured an agit

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