Journalist killed in Ukraine

Renaud, a 50-year-old filmmaker and journalist, was reportedly shot as he and his reporting partner passed through a checkpoint in a suburb of Kyiv.

CPJ called for justice in a statement decrying the shooting. Renaud was initially mistaken as a correspondent for the Times due to a press badge he was found with, a photograph of which was included in a Facebook post published by Kyiv Regional Police Chief Andriy Nebitov. The post also included a graphic photo purportedly of Renaud’s body, as well as a picture of his passport. There were two journalists and one of ours [a Ukrainian],” Danylo Shapovalov, a surgeon volunteering for the Ukrainian territorial defense, told the outlet. Twitter content The other reporter, identified by The Guardian as photographer Juan Arredondo, gave an interview from his hospital bed in the midst of being treated by health workers. Brent Renaud, an award-winning filmmaker who spent years documenting conflict in hot spots across the world—often with his brother, Craig—was killed while reporting near Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said it could not yet confirm the circumstances of the shooting, but local police said the journalist was killed by Russian forces.

Brent Renaud is the first known American journalist to be killed in the war in Ukraine.

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Brent Renaud, a Peabody-winning filmmaker, was working on a project on the global refugee crisis when he was shot by Russian forces outside Kyiv.

He added that, if an American journalist was killed, that was “a shocking and horrifying event.” Most recently, a law was passed threatening up to 15 years imprisonment for journalists speaking out about the conflict. In a statement released on Twitter, Cliff Levy, deputy managing editor at the Times, said: “We are deeply saddened to hear of Brent Renaud’s death. It is essential that journalists are able to safely cover this ongoing invasion and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.” Arredondo was wounded in the lower back. “Our hearts are with all of Brent’s loved ones.

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“What President Biden has made clear from the beginning is that we will not have U.S. military forces operating in Ukraine, and there are none operating there now,” Sullivan added. And we have communicated to Beijing that we will not stand by and allow any country to compensate Russia for its losses from the economic sanctions.” “He told us that what he sought in his journalism was ‘thoughtful stories about disenfranchised people,’ and he lived up to that credo every day. Poland is a key location for routing Western military aid to Ukraine. “I will just say that this is part and parcel of what has been a brazen aggression on the part of the Russians where they have targeted civilians, they have targeted hospitals, they have targeted places of worship and they have targeted journalists,” Sullivan added on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “Brent’s filmmaking was exceptional and what made it so was not just his abundant skill but a kindness and deep humanity he brought to his work,” she said in a statement.

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Someone offered to take us to the other bridge and we crossed a checkpoint and they started shooting at us. “We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of an American journalist in Ukraine, Brent Renaud,” Levy tweeted. The policeman was holding Renaud’s camera and press pass, an outdated pass that said he worked for the New York Times. “We crossed the first bridge in Irpin,” Arredondo said. Brent Renaud, 50, was reporting from Irpin, a city in the Kyiv region, neighboring the Ukrainian capital. “Brent was a talented photographer and film-maker, but he was not on assignment for the New York Times in Ukraine. Early reports that he worked for Times circulated because he was wearing a Times press badge he had been issued for an assignment many years ago.”

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“It’s the most horrible thing,” said Katarina, identified only by her first name in Sky News video. She says, “Our city is under siege and we barely escaped.” Officials also said that bombings and shelling have damaged 369 educational facilities in the country, 57 of which have been completely destroyed. Sullivan says a military attack on NATO territory would cause the invocation of Article 5. Nonetheless, U.S. citizen Brent Renaud paid with his life trying to highlight the deceit, cruelty and ruthlessness of the aggressor.” It said the injured journalist was being taken to a hospital in Kyiv. A statement from Kyiv regional police said that Russian troops opened fire on the car, and that one journalist died. Some cars had the letter Z painted on them — a symbol of support for the Russian president. Ukraine said Wednesday that power had been cut to the site and that there was enough diesel fuel to run on-site generators for 48 hours. Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko said that “heroes” from the national power grid company managed to restore the connection. It offered to act as a neutral intermediary in negotiations. Zelenskyy said in his nightly address on Sunday that Russia fired 30 rockets at the Yavoriv military base.