Brent Renaud, a journalist and filmmaker from the United States, killed in Ukraine

According to police, a US journalist working in Ukraine was shot and killed in the town of Irpin, just outside of Kyiv.

Brent Renaud, 50, had previously worked for the New York Times as a journalist and filmmaker. Andriy Nebytov, the police chief of Kyiv, said he had been targeted by Russian soldiers. Two more journalists were hurt and had to go to the hospital. It’s the first time a foreign journalist covering the conflict in Ukraine has been killed.

Juan Arredondo, one of the injured journalists, told an Italian reporter that he was with Brent Renaud when they were shot at. Renaud’s press ID was issued by the New York Times, according to photos circulating online. The newspaper said in a statement that it was “deeply saddened” to learn of Renaud’s death, but that he had not been working for it in Ukraine.

According to the Times, Renaud last worked for the publication in 2015, and the press ID he was wearing in Ukraine was issued years ago. NBC News expressed its condolences to Renaud’s family and praised his “significant contributions” to NBC News reports, despite the fact that he was not working for them in Ukraine.

Renaud had reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Haiti for a number of US news organisations. He won a Peabody Award for his work on the Last Chance High series about Chicago schools, which aired in 2014.

He was based in New York and Little Rock, Arkansas, and frequently collaborated with his brother, Craig, who was also a filmmaker. It’s unclear whether Craig had also visited Ukraine.

“Tell America, tell the world, what they did to a journalist,” a Ukrainian police officer told PBS news journalist Jane Ferguson.

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