The police in the region of Kiev said that award-winning American journalist Brent Renaud, 50, was killed by Russian forces in Irpin, Ukraine, according to Ukrainian authorities’ social media posts on Sunday.
Kiev police publications included a photo of the journalist’s body and his US passport as evidence of the death, as well as an old New York Times badge bearing Brent Renaud’s name.
The New York Times made a post on Twitter in which it reacted to information about the journalist’s death. In the text, the newspaper says it is “deeply saddened” by the reports and informs that it had Renaud as a collaborator over the years, with the most recent work carried out in 2015.
According to the New York Times, the journalist was not working for the newspaper during the war in Ukraine, but initial information that pointed to this was based on the fact that he was wearing a badge of the newspaper, given to him “many years ago”.
THE CNN could not verify for which media outlet the American journalists were working on the Ukraine.
An adviser to the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, Mikhail Podolyak, also reacted to the news via Twitter. “No one doubts about Russia’s infringement of the rules of war. Only one question remains: how long will the United States ignore the war, the murder of its citizens and not close airspace in Ukraine?” he asked.
Brent Renaud was a Peabody Award-winning journalist, producer, and documentary filmmaker who lived and worked in New York City and Little Rock, Arkansas, according to his biography on the Renaud Brothers website. He and his brother, Craig, have spent years “telling true humanistic stories from key points of the world,” including projects in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Egypt and Libya.
Kiev police also reported that two other journalists were wounded by Russian troops. One of the injured journalists is believed to be Colombian-American photographer Juan Arredondo, who is now in hospital, according to social media videos and international media reports.
In a Facebook post, Kiev region police chief Andriy Nebitov said Russian forces had killed American journalist Brent Renaud and that “two more journalists were injured, adding that “the wounded have already been rescued and transferred to a hospital in the capital. What condition they are in is currently unknown.”
Social media footage emerged of a journalist identified as Juan Arredondo at the Okhmatdyt hospital in Kiev, in which he describes being shot by Russian forces while passing a checkpoint in Irpin, Ukraine, while filming refugees leaving the city.
“It was the two of us, my friend Brent Renaud. And he was shot and left behind,” Arredondo said in the video, adding that Renaud was shot in the neck. “We broke up and I was pulled into the [aponta para a maca] … an ambulance, I don’t know”.
Arredondo, a filmmaker and visual journalist who is also an adjunct professor at the Columbia Journalism School, posted photos of Zhytomyr, Ukraine, on Saturday, noting in an Instagram post that he is “#onassignment.”
Columbia Journalism School Dean Steve Coll told CNN that “we don’t have any independent information about his injuries at this time, but we are working now to learn more and see if we can help.”
The Committee to Protect Journalists also noted Arredondo’s injuries in a statement released on Sunday, in which the organization also denounced the shooting and called for those responsible to be brought to justice.
Arredondo is a 2019 Harvard Nieman Fellow. He has had his photographs featured in The New York Times, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, ESPN, Vanity Fair, and other media, according to biography of your personal website.
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