LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – An American journalist was shot and killed by Russian forces in the city of Irpin in Ukraine’s Kyiv region and one other journalist was wounded, Kyiv regional police chief Andriy Nyebytov mentioned on Sunday.
Nyebytov initially mentioned the lifeless journalist labored for the New York Times. However the Times mentioned that the journalist had beforehand labored for the paper however was not at present working for it. The Times named the journalist as Brent Renaud.
“We are deeply saddened to listen to of Brent Renaud’s demise. Brent was a gifted photographer and filmmaker who had contributed to The New York Times through the years,” The Times mentioned in a press release posted on Twitter by its spokesperson.
“Though he had contributed to The Times in the previous (most just lately in 2015), he was not on project for any desk at The Times in Ukraine,” it mentioned.
“Early stories that he labored for Times circulated as a result of he was sporting a Times press badge that had been issued for an project a few years in the past.”
Nyebytov mentioned that Renaud was shot by Russian forces in Irpin, however didn’t give particulars of the incident. He didn’t establish the wounded journalist.
“Another journalist was wounded. We are at present attempting to take the sufferer out of the fight zone,” he mentioned in a press release.
(Reporting by Natalia Zinets, Max Hunder and Ken Li; Writing by Frances Kerry)
