Irina Zaretska did not get stabbed; it appears there is confusion with a similarly named individual. The stabbing incident occurred to Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, who was savagely attacked and stabbed multiple times on August 22 on the Charlotte Lynx Blue Line train in Charlotte, North Carolina. The attack was random and carried out by a man named Decarlos Brown Jr., who was later charged with first-degree murder. Iryna Zarutska was stabbed on the train while sitting and looking at her phone.
Irina Zaretska, by contrast, is a professional karateka, originally from Ukraine and later representing Azerbaijan, with no reports of being stabbed or attacked.
