Kyiv area police say American journalist Brent Renaud killed by Russian forces in Irpin

Award-winning American journalist Brent Renaud was killed by Russian forces in Irpin, Ukraine, in keeping with Kyiv area police in social media posts on Sunday. Kyiv police mentioned one other American journalist was wounded by Russian troops.

In a tweet, Kyiv area police named the 50-year-old American journalist who was killed as Brent Renaud. Police posted a photograph of his physique and his American passport as proof, in addition to a photograph of an outdated New York Instances press badge with Brent Renaud’s identify.

An adviser to Ukraine’s inside minister, Anton Gerashchenko, mentioned in a press release that Renaud “paid along with his life for trying to reveal the insidiousness, cruelty and ruthlessness of the aggressor,” in keeping with a New York Instances report.  

CNN has been unable to confirm which media outlet the American journalists had been working for in Ukraine.

The New York Instances mentioned in a press release on Sunday, “We’re deeply saddened to listen to of Brent Renaud’s demise. Brent was a gifted filmmaker who had contributed to The New York Instances over time. Although he had contributed to The Instances prior to now (most just lately in 2015), he was not on task for any desk at The Instances in Ukraine. Early studies that he labored for Instances circulated as a result of he was carrying a Instances press badge that had been issued for an task a few years in the past.” 

Some extra context: The northern Ukrainian metropolis of Irpin, simply exterior Kyiv, has been the location of considerable Russian shelling in latest days and has seen intensive destruction, in keeping with the Kyiv regional authorities on Friday.

Brent Renaud was a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker, producer, and journalist, who lived and labored in New York Metropolis and Little Rock, Arkansas, in keeping with his biography on the Renaud Brothers web site. 

Together with his brother Craig, Renaud spent years “telling humanistic verite tales from the World’s sizzling spots,” together with tasks in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Egypt, and Libya, in keeping with his web site bio. Brent Renaud was a 2019 Harvard Nieman Fellow. 

A publish on the Renaud Brothers Fb web page, dated March 8, urged readers to comply with their protection of the warfare Ukraine.

The director of the Nieman Basis for Journalism at Harvard mentioned on Sunday that the muse is “heartsick” over the demise of American journalist Brent Renaud in Ukraine. 

The Committee to Shield Journalists on Sunday condemned the killing of Renaud and known as for the killers to be delivered to justice. 

The New York-based group mentioned in a statement, “U.S. reporter Brent Renaud was shot and killed, and one other journalist was injured on Sunday within the metropolis of Irpin, exterior of Kyiv, in keeping with a Ukrainian police official and information studies. In denouncing the capturing, the Committee to Shield Journalists known as for the killers to be delivered to justice.”

“We’re shocked and saddened to study of the demise of U.S. journalist Brent Renaud in Ukraine. This sort of assault is completely unacceptable, and is a violation of worldwide regulation,” added the CPJ’s program director Carlos Martinez de la Serna within the assertion. “Russian forces in Ukraine should cease all violence towards journalists and different civilians directly, and whoever killed Renaud needs to be held to account.”