The police official shared images of the journalist’s body, as well as his press ID and US passport. The press ID showed the reporter as an employee of the New York Times, but the prestigious US daily said that the man was not working for them at the moment of his death.
New Delhi: An American journalist was shot dead while his colleague got injured in a firing of Russian troops near Kyiv in Ukraine, said Kyiv police on Sunday.
Journalist, Brent Renaud, 51, was in a car with other journalists in Irpin, near Kyiv, when Russian troops opened fire. Renaud’s death was announced by Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to Ukraine’s interior minister, who said in a Facebook post that he paid ‘with his life for trying to highlight the aggressor’s ingenuity, cruelty and ruthlessness.’ The journalist is a Peabody and DuPont Award-winning filmmaker, best known for producing humanitarian stories from conflict zones. He has been a journalist for over two decades.
The police official shared images of the journalist’s body, as well as his press ID and US passport. The press ID showed the reporter as an employee of the New York Times, but the prestigious US daily said that the man was not working for them at the moment of his death. An unverified video appeared to show his journalist colleague being treated in a hospital with wounds. He said that he was shot at while in a car.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman, Lyudmila Denisova, said Russia used phosphorous bombs during overnight attacks in eastern Ukraine. Use of these weapons in residential areas is prohibited under the Geneva Convention.
