Peabody and DuPont Award winning US journalist, Brent Renaud, killed in Ukraine
March 14, 2022, 3:42 am

Peabody and DuPont Award winning US journalist, Brent Renaud, killed in Ukraine

Peabody and DuPont Award winning filmmaker and US journalist, Brent Renaud, has been shot dead in the town of Irpin outside Kyiv (File photo: News center Maine)

The We For News reported, according to BBC, Peabody and DuPont Award winning filmmaker and US journalist, Brent Renaud, has been shot dead in the town of Irpin outside Kyiv.

Kiev’s police chief Andriy Nebytov said he had been targeted by Russian soldiers. Two other journalists were injured and taken to hospital.

BBC reported that it is the first reported death of a foreign journalist covering the war in Ukraine.

Photographs are circulating showing a press ID for Brent Renaud that was issued by the New York Times.

In a statement, the newspaper said it was saddened to hear of Renaud’s death but that he had not been working for the newspaper in Ukraine.

According to the report, he last worked for the newspaper in 2015, the NYT said, and the press ID he was wearing in Ukraine had been issued years ago. It was not immediately clear who Renaud was working for in Ukraine.

Award-winning American journalist Brent Renaud was killed by Russian forces in the Ukrainian city of Irpin, police in Kyiv said in social media posts on Sunday. Another American journalist was reported wounded. In a tweet, Kyiv region police identified the dead man as Renaud, who was 50. Police posted a photo of his body and his American passport as evidence, as well as a photo of an outdated New York Times press badge with Renaud's name. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/13/media/russia-ukraine-brent-renaud-death-intl/index.html
Posted by Ukrainian American Coordinating Council on Sunday, March 13, 2022

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says the US will impose “appropriate consequences” on Russia. The BBC reported that he said, news of the death was “shocking and horrifying”, and US officials would be consulting with Ukrainian officials to determine “how this happened.”

Another US journalist, Juan Arredondo, was taken to hospital after the incident. He told an Italian reporter that he was with Renaud when they came under fire.

He said: “We were across one of the first bridges in Irpin, going to film other refugees leaving, and we got into a car, somebody offered to take us to the other bridge and we crossed a checkpoint, and they start shooting at us."

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“So the driver turned around, and they kept shooting; there’s two of us. My friend is Brent Renaud, and he’s been shot and left behind.”

Source: wefornews

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