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Award-winning American journalist Brent Renaud was killed by Russian forces in Irpin, Ukraine, in response to Kyiv area police in social media posts on Sunday. Kyiv police stated 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 Police posted a photograph of his physique and his American passport as proof, in addition to a photograph of an outdated New York Occasions press badge with Brent Renaud’s title.

An adviser to Ukraine’s inside minister, Anton Gerashchenko, stated in an announcement that Renaud “paid along with his life for making an attempt to reveal the insidiousness, cruelty and ruthlessness of the aggressor,” in response to a New York Occasions report.  

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

The New York Occasions stated in an announcement on Sunday, “We’re deeply saddened to listen to of Brent Renaud’s dying. Brent was a gifted filmmaker who had contributed to The New York Occasions through the years. Although he had contributed to The Occasions prior to now (most just lately in 2015), he was not on task for any desk at The Occasions in Ukraine. Early stories that he labored for Occasions circulated as a result of he was carrying a Occasions 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 outdoors Kyiv, has been the positioning of considerable Russian shelling in latest days and has seen intensive destruction, in response to 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 response to his biography on the Renaud Brothers web site. 

Along 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 response to his web site bio. Brent Renaud was a 2019 Harvard Nieman Fellow. 

Christof Putzel, a buddy and colleague of Renaud, advised CNN his passing is a “devastating loss to journalism at present.”

Putzel stated Renaud was engaged on a documentary about refugees around the globe when the disaster in Ukraine hit. He stated that “Brent was on the aircraft the following day” and lined the plight of refugees from Kyiv into Poland. A put up on the Renaud Brothers’ Fb web page, dated March 8, urged readers to comply with their protection of the battle Ukraine.

A number of years in the past, Putzel and Renaud received a duPont Award for a narrative they labored on about weapons being smuggled into Mexico from the US. “What I stated after we accepted our award was, the one factor greater than Brent’s balls are his coronary heart. And I stand by that. That is what sort of journalist he was,” Putzel stated.

He stated Renaud had a novel capacity to make folks belief him as he advised their tales in locations like Iraq and different battle zones. “You may sit down and spend per week watching all of Brent’s tales through the years back-to-back and simply be flabbergasted. The profession that he had, his capacity to succeed in folks, his capacity to seize the humanity behind folks’s struggling is one thing I’ve by no means seen earlier than, and I used to be simply honored to work with him so long as I did,” Putzel stated.

The director of the Nieman Basis for Journalism at Harvard stated on Sunday that the muse is “heartsick” over the dying 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 dropped at justice. 

The New York-based group stated 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, outdoors of Kyiv, in response to a Ukrainian police official and information stories. In denouncing the capturing, the Committee to Shield Journalists known as for the killers to be dropped at justice.”

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