In Irpin, near Kyiv, the russian invaders shot dead The New York Times correspondent Brent Renaud and wounded another journalist. This was reported by Kyiv Police Chief Andriy Nebytov.
“Today, a correspondent working for the world-famous New York Times was shot dead in Irpin. Another journalist was wounded. Now the victim is being taken away from the combat zone. Naturally, the journalist’s profession involves some risks, but the US citizen Brent Renaud paid the price of his life for trying to cover the villainy, cruelty, and ruthlessness of the aggressor,” Andriy Nebytov wrote.
Photo by Andriy Nebytov on Facebook
На відео поранений колега Брента Рено пояснює, що по них відкрили вогонь на блокпості.
Two American journalist shot by Russian at Irpin bridge. One is under surgery at the main hospital in Kyiv and the other was shot at the neck pic.twitter.com/4QmqDOeagmhttps://t.co/wRN2Rzazsm via @annalisacamilli #Ukraine— Liveuamap (@Liveuamap) March 13, 2022
According to the Okhmatdyt Hospital’s spokeswoman Anastasia Magerramova, the injured journalist, American citizen Juan Diego Herrera Arredondo, 46 years old, was conscious. The man received a shrapnel wound in his thigh. He has been operated by Okhmatdyt medics. He does not know of his colleague’s fate yet. The last thing he remembers is Brent Renaud being shot in the neck at a russian checkpoint.
Brent Renaud was a filmmaker, producer, documentarist who reported from hot spots around the globe: the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, conflicts in Egypt and Lybia, the battles for Mosul, cartels in Mexico, the refugee crisis in Africa. He won numerous television and journalism awards along with his brother Craig: the Peabody Award, Columbia DuPont Awards, Overseas Press Club Award, etc.