Award-winning Filmmaker Brent Renaud Is Killed By Russian Forces

Award-winning Filmmaker Brent Renaud Is Killed By Russian Forces

Russian forces are said to have shot and killed the award-winning American filmmaker in the flashpoint town of Irpin, just outside of Kyiv.

Juan Arredondo, a photographer from the United States, was injured.

According to local police officials, Renaud, 51, was hit in the neck and died while working on Sunday after coming under Russian fire. This could not be independently verified.

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Jane Ferguson, a reporter for PBS Newshour who was nearby when Renaud was killed, tweeted: “Just left roadside spot near Irpin where body of American journalist Brent Renaud lay under a blanket. Ukrainian medics could do nothing to help him by that stage. Outraged Ukrainian police officer: ‘Tell America, tell the world, what they did to a journalist.’”

Clifford Levy, a deputy managing editor of the New York Times, issued a statement on Twitter clarifying that Renaud was not on assignment for the paper, contrary to earlier reports.

“[The New York Times] is deeply saddened to learn of the death of an American journalist in Ukraine, Brent Renaud. Brent was a talented photographer and film-maker, but he was not on assignment for the New York Times in Ukraine. Early reports that he worked for Times circulated because he was wearing a Times press badge he had been issued for an assignment many years ago.”

Levy added: “Brent’s death is a terrible loss. Brave journalists like Brent take tremendous risks to bear witness and to tell the world about the devastation and suffering caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”