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CBS News reports:
An American journalist was killed and another journalist was wounded by Russian forces in the town of Irpin outside the capital of Kyiv on Sunday, Ukrainian police said.
Brent Renaud, a 50-year-old filmmaker, was killed when Russian troops opened fire, according to Andriy Nebytov, the head of Kyiv’s regional police force. Nebytov posted a graphic photo purportedly of Renaud’s body on Facebook, as well as pictures of his American passport and media credentials issued by The New York Times.
A spokeswoman for the Times said Renaud was “a talented filmmaker who had contributed to The New York Times over the years,” most recently in 2015, but he “was not on assignment for any desk at The Times in Ukraine.”
From his IMDB biography:
Brent Renaud is a Peabody and DuPont Award winning filmmaker and has spent the past two decades producing films and television programs with his brother Craig. The Renaud Brothers are best known for telling humanistic stories from the World’s hot spots and their projects have covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the earthquake in Haiti, political turmoil in Egypt and Libya, the fight for Mosul, extremism in Africa, cartel violence in Mexico, and the youth refugee crisis in Central America.
American journalist Brent Renaud shot and killed by Russian forces in Ukraine, police say https://t.co/akrGCwqW5b
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) March 13, 2022
Just left roadside spot near Irpin where body of American journalist Brent Renaud lay under a blanket. Ukranian medics could do nothing to help him by that stage. Outraged Ukranian police officer: “Tell America, tell the world, what they did to a journalist.”
— Jane Ferguson (@JaneFerguson5) March 13, 2022
NEW: American journalist and documentary filmmaker Brent Renaud, who has made documentaries from some of the worst hot spots on the planet, was shot at a checkpoint while filming refugees trying to escape the war https://t.co/TZfW1YSMnT
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 13, 2022