American Journalist Brent Renaud Killed in Ukraine

An American journalist was shot dead in Ukraine and another was wounded on Sunday, Ukrainian authorities said. Brent Renaud, an award-winning filmmaker who spent years documenting conflict in hot spots across the world—often with his brother, Craig—was killed while reporting near Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said it could not yet confirm the circumstances of the shooting, but local police said the journalist was killed by Russian forces. Renaud, who was 50, “paid with his life for attempting to expose the insidiousness, cruelty and ruthlessness of the aggressor,” Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s… Read Full Article