Kyiv Region police says a U.S. video journalist has died and another journalist was injured when they were attacked by Russian forces in Ukraine.
The police force said Sunday on its official website that Russian troops opened fire on the car of Brent Renaud and another journalist, Juan Arredondo, in Irpin near the capital.
Arredondo was taken to a hospital in Kyiv. He is from New Jersey.
A New York Times spokesperson said Renaud, 50, was a “talented filmmaker who had contributed to The New York Times over the years.” It said he was not working for the publication at the time of his death.
Journalist Annalisa Camilli has told The Associated Press she was at a hospital in Kyiv where wounded Arredondo was brought for treatment. In a video recorded by Camilli, Arredondo, lying on a stretcher, said he and Renaud had been filming refugees fleeing the area when Russian soldiers at a checkpoint opened fire.
The driver of their vehicle turned around, but soldiers continued to fire, Arredondo said. Arredondo said an ambulance carried him away and Renaud, who was shot in the neck, had been left behind.
The police force said: “Of course, the profession of journalism carries risks. Nonetheless, U.S. citizen Brent Renaud paid with his life trying to highlight the deceit, cruelty and ruthlessness of the aggressor.”
Asked about the reports, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CBS News that the U.S. government would be consulting with the Ukrainians to determine how this happened and would then “execute appropriate consequences.”
“This is part and parcel of what has been a brazen aggression on the part of the Russians, where they have targeted civilians, they have targeted hospitals, they have targeted places of worship, and they have targeted journalists,” Sullivan said.
Arredondo, a photojournalist, was born in Englewood and describes himself in online biographies as a Colombian American who spent time growing up in Colombia. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry in 2001 from Rutgers University, according to one biography.
During Harper’s Magazine 2020 scholarship event, Arredondo said he left a job he held at Merck & Co in Rahway to pursue his passion in journalism.
He says on his website that he regularly contributes to The New York Times and National Geographic, and his LinkedIn page says he also works as an adjunct professor at Columbia University — where he previously earned his master’s degree in journalism.
”Growing up in Medellin [Colombia] during the drug wars in the 1990s, Juan knew firsthand the impact of violence and trauma. In his essay, he wrote about an activist in Colombia forced to flee her home amid the turmoil accompanying the country’s now faltering peace process,” the Overseas Press Club Foundation said when it announced its 2020 scholars.
- NJ Advance Media Reporter Steven Rodas contributed to this story.
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