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A US filmmaker was killed in Ukraine when he and a colleague came under fire in the village of Irpin, about 10 kilometres north-west of Kiev, local police announced on Sunday.
The advisor to Ukraine’s interior minister, Anton Herashchenko, confirmed the incident on a Telegram channel.
Footage shared on Twitter by a Ukrainian member of parliament appears to show the deceased journalist’s colleague in a Kiev hospital with a shrapnel injury to the pelvic area.
The man in the video says they were shot at from a checkpoint in the embattled town. According to Ukrainian sources, it was Russian forces who opened fire.
There was no immediate official response from Moscow to the accusations.
The New York Times, responding to reports that the man who was killed was a reporter for the paper, said that he had worked for the Times in the past, but had not been on assignment for the paper in Ukraine.
“We are deeply saddened to hear of Brent Renaud’s death,” a spokesperson for the paper said on Twitter, naming the journalist thought to have been killed.
Washington/Moscow
A US filmmaker was killed in Ukraine when he and a colleague came under fire in the village of Irpin, about 10 kilometres north-west of Kiev, local police announced on Sunday.
The advisor to Ukraine’s interior minister, Anton Herashchenko, confirmed the incident on a Telegram channel.
Footage shared on Twitter by a Ukrainian member of parliament appears to show the deceased journalist’s colleague in a Kiev hospital with a shrapnel injury to the pelvic area.
The man in the video says they were shot at from a checkpoint in the embattled town. According to Ukrainian sources, it was Russian forces who opened fire.
There was no immediate official response from Moscow to the accusations.
The New York Times, responding to reports that the man who was killed was a reporter for the paper, said that he had worked for the Times in the past, but had not been on assignment for the paper in Ukraine.
“We are deeply saddened to hear of Brent Renaud’s death,” a spokesperson for the paper said on Twitter, naming the journalist thought to have been killed.
