Last Updated on: 13th March 2022, 10:40 pm
Who is Brent Renaud? Biography, Wiki
Brent Renaud, an American journalist, was killed in Ukraine when he and a colleague were attacked near the capital Kyiv, regional police and a government official said.
Russian troops opened fire on the car of Renaud and another journalist in Irpin, about 10 kilometers northwest of the capital, Kiev police said in a statement on Sunday. He said the injured journalist was taken to a hospital in Kyiv.
Brent Renaud’s Age
His current age was 50 years.
US Journalist & Filmmaker Killed in Ukraine
Russian forces killed American journalist Brent Renaud in Irpin, Ukraine, police in the Kyiv region said on social media on Sunday. Juan Arredondo, a World Press Photo Award-winning Colombian photographer, was with Renaud during the attack.
On Twitter, police in the Kyiv region identified Brent Renaud as the murdered American journalist. Police released a photo of his body and his US passport as evidence, along with a photo of a New York Times press card bearing his name.
An adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko said in a statement that Renaud “paid with his life for trying to expose the attacker’s insidiousness, recklessness, and recklessness,” according to a New York Times report.
World Press Photo winner Juan Arredondo was with American documentary filmmaker Brent Renaud, who was killed in the attack. In a video captured by a reporter at a hospital, Arredondo gave details of his friend’s final moments.
“We crossed the first bridge in Irpin. We wanted to film all the departing refugees. We got in a car… someone offered to take us to the other bridge and we went through a checkpoint and they started shooting at us. Then the driver turned around and they kept shooting… and there were two of us. My friend is Brent Renaud and he was shot and left behind,” Arredondo told Italian journalist Annalisa Camillim as he was being treated in a hospital bed.
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Juan Arredondo collaborated with the American director Brent Renaud, a well-known American documentary filmmaker who has worked for several media outlets, including the New York Times.
Although he was wearing a New York Times bracelet at the time of his death, a newspaper spokesman said he was not on a mission for them.
The northern Ukrainian city of Irpin, located on the outskirts of Kyiv, has been on the scene of heavy Russian bombing raids in recent days and has suffered considerable damage, the regional government of Kyiv said on Friday.
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