According to the Ukrainian police, the American journalist Brent Reno was killed in Irbin by some Russian soldiers.
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American journalist Brent Renault He was killed by Russian soldiers. This was announced by the chief of the Kyiv police, Andrey Nebitov. Pictures of the reporter’s documents and a picture of the corpse spread on social media. Renault, according to the news published by Neptov, was killed in Irbin, in the Kyiv hinterland.
An American journalist was killed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine. The story of the wounded reporter
And in the same post on social media, Kyiv police chief Andrei Nepetov spoke about another wounded journalist.
Corriere della Sera reported the story of the wounded reporter: “We were crossing the first bridge in Irbin with other colleagues to photograph the fleeing refugees. A car came and asked us if we wanted to go with them to cross the second bridge, we crossed the barrier and they shot us. Brent was wounded and we had to leave him behind. To escape. I came here by ambulance. I saw that he was shot in the neck.”
A war scene from Irbin.
Who is Brent Reno, the American journalist who was killed in Ukraine by Russian soldiers?
Like his brother Craig Reno, Brent Reno was a documentary director, television producer, and film programmer in New York City and Little Rock, Arkansas.
As reported by the Pulitzer Center website, the Reno brothers’ work has taken them around the world in many of the conflicts and hottest regions of the past decade, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Haiti earthquake, and war. On drugs in Mexico and political turmoil in Egypt.
Their films and TV shows have received numerous awards, including a Peabody Award, an IDA Award for Best Television Series, two Overseas Press Club Awards, two Columbia Dupont Awards, and an Edward R. Murrow Award for their work with the ‘New York Times’.
The New York Times determined that Brent Reno was not in Ukraine on assignment by The New York Times, although the reporter had collaborated with the newspaper in the past.
The New York Times message read: “We are deeply saddened to learn the news of Brent Reno’s death. Brent has been a talented video maker who has collaborated with The New York Times for years. Despite this collaboration in the past (especially in 2015), he has not received an assignment The New York Times of Ukraine. The first reports of Brent as a reporter for the “New York Times” were because of the “New York Times” badge he was wearing, which, however, was released for another job years ago.”
The killing of an American journalist in Ukraine by Russian soldiers: the American response
As soon as news of the killing of the American journalist in Ukraine came out, Jack Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, said in an interview with CNN that Russia would suffer.Serious consequencesfor what he’s doing. He then added, “We will obviously follow this latest development very carefully and We will respond accordingly“.
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