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Brent Renaud, US filmmaker and journalist, killed in Ukraine ‘by Russian soldiers’
Brent Renaud, the award-winning American photojournalist and filmmaker, has been killed in Ukraine.
BBC quoted Andriy Nebytov, Kyiv’s police chief, as saying that Renaud, 50, had been targeted by Russian soldiers in the town of Irpin.
Renaud was hit in the neck while the two other journalists who were injured in the shooting were taken to a hospital in Kyiv.
Juan Arrendondo, one of the injured journalists, said he was with Renaud when they came under attack.
???????? Two American journalist shot by Russian at Irpin bridge. One is under surgery at the main hospital in Kyiv and the other was shot at the neck. pic.twitter.com/9lihX1JJ58
— annalisa camilli (@annalisacamilli) March 13, 2022
.@nytimes is deeply saddened to learn of the death of an American journalist in Ukraine, Brent Renaud.
Brent was a talented photographer and filmmaker, but he was not on assignment for @nytimes in Ukraine.
Full statement is here. pic.twitter.com/bRcrnNDacQ— Cliff Levy (@cliffordlevy) March 13, 2022
