The police outside Kyiv have confirmed the death of a US journalist, Brent Renaud in Ukraine, after he was shot dead in the town of Irpin.
The 50-year-old man was a journalist and filmmaker who was working in the region for Time, BBC reports.
According to Kyiv’s police chief Andriy Nebytov, Renaud had been targeted by Russian soldiers.
On casualties, two other journalists were also reported injured and taken to hospital.
So far, it is the first reported death of a foreign journalist covering the war in Ukraine.
At least one of the injured journalists who is an Italian reporter, Juan Arredondo was available to make comments concerning the attack.
Arredondo while reacting in a video published on Twitter stated that he had been with Renaud when they came under fire.
His tweet read: “We were across one of the first bridges in Irpin, going to film other refugees leaving, and we got into a car”,
“Somebody offered to take us to the other bridge and we crossed a checkpoint, and they start shooting at us. So the driver turned around, and they kept shooting; there’s two of us. My friend is Brent Renaud, and he’s been shot and left behind… I saw him being shot in the neck.”
