American Journalist Shot Dead In Irpin, Another Wounded ; Ukraine Blames Russian Forces

A 51-year-old US reporter, Brent Renaud, was reportedly shot dead by the Russian forces in Ukraine on Sunday.

Another journalist has severely got injured in Irpin, a frontline suburb of Kyiv that has witnessed some of the fiercest fighting since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Papers found on the American reporter’s body suggested that Renaud was a documentary filmmaker and hailed from New York.

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A New York Times identity card was also among the papers, leading to reports he worked for the paper, but the US daily said he was not working for it at the time of his death.

In a statement published on social media, New York Times deputy managing editor Cliff Levy said they were “deeply saddened” by the news and Renaud was a “talented photographer and filmmaker”.

?The head of police in the Kyiv region, Andriy Nebitov, said that Renaud had been killed and another journalist wounded by Russian forces in Irpin. “The invaders cynically kill even journalists of the international media who try to show the truth about the atrocities of Russian troops in Ukraine,” Nebitov wrote on Facebook.?

“Early reports that he worked for Times circulated because he was wearing a Times press badge that had been issued for an assignment many years ago,” the statement shared by NYT read.

Inna Sovsun, Member of Ukraine's Parliament, claimed that the journalist, Brent Renaud, was killed by the Russian forces.

Meanwhile, Maksym Kozytskyi, the Governor of Ukraine’s Lviv region, on Saturday said that 35 people were killed in a Russian attack on Ukraine’s western military base, news agency Reuters reported.

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Kozytskyi said Russian forces fired more than 30 cruise missiles at the Yavoriv military range, located 30 kilometers (19 miles) northwest of the city of Lviv and 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Ukraine’s border with Poland.

The war between both the countries continue in cities of Ukraine, even as citizens rush to protect themselves in bomb shelters and bunkers.

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