Brent Renaud obit

Award-winning US journalist Brent Renaud killed in Ukraine: police

 

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An award-winning journalist who was a former New York Times contributor has been killed by Russian forces near Kyiv, the region’s head of police said Sunday.

Brent Renaud, 51, a video journalist who has also reported for NBC, Vice News and HBO, was fatally shot in the neck when Russian troops opened fire on a car near the Romanivsky Bridge in the Ukraine town of Irpin, police and a witness said.

“The occupants … kill even journalists of the international media who try to show the truth about the inaction of Russian troops in Ukraine,” Kyiv Chief of Police Andrey Nebitov wrote on Facebook.

“Of course, the profession of a journalist is a risk, but US citizen Brent Renaud paid his life for trying to highlight the aggressor’s ingenuity, cruelty and ruthlessness.”

Nebitov also shared a video of a police officer at the scene with a bloodied man’s body.

Renaud was working on a Times Studios project about refugees when he was attacked, according to a tweet.

Russia will face “appropriate consequences” for Renaud’s death, said US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday.

“This is obviously shocking and horrifying, and I’ve just learned about it as I came on to air here, so I will be consulting with my colleagues, will be consulting with Ukrainians, to determine how this happened and then to measure and execute appropriate consequences as a result of it,” Sullivan said during an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Two other journalists were injured in the attack, too, and taken to the hospital, Nebitov said.

One of the hurt journalists was US photographer Juan Arredondo, who has worked for the New York Times and National Geographic, the Guardian reported.

“We had crossed the first bridge in Irpin. We were going to film other refugees leaving. We got into a car. Somebody offered to take us to the other bridge,” Arrendondo told the Italian paper Internazionale from his hospital bed.

“We crossed a checkpoint, and they started shooting at us. The driver turned around, there were two of us. My friend is Brent Renaud,” he said.

Arrendondo said the attackers shot Renaud and that he was forced to leave without his friend in an ambulance.

“He has been shot and left behind. I saw he has been shot in the neck. We got split,” he said.

PBS reporter Jane Ferguson said she saw Renaud’s body on the side of the road under a blanket.

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2017 Meth Storm (Documentary) (co-cinematographer)

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 2011 Vanguard (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

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 2009 Warrior Champions (Documentary)

 2008 Dirty Driving: Thundercars of Indiana (TV Movie documentary)

 2007 Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later (TV Movie documentary)

 2006 Taking the Hill (TV Movie documentary)

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  Haiti Hospital (Documentary) (co-director) (post-production)

 2021 Our Time UCF Knights Football (TV Mini Series) (12 episodes)

- War on I-4 (2021)

- Staying on Task (2021)

- On a Pedestal (2021)

- Coming Home (2021)

- Tough Love (2021)

2019 State of the Art (TV Movie documentary)

 2017 Meth Storm (Documentary)

 2016/IV Shelter (Documentary)

 2014 Last Chance High (TV Series documentary short)

 2010 Dateline: America Now (TV Series) (co-director - 1 episode)

- Faces Against Violence (2010) ... (co-director)

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 2009 Warrior Champions (Documentary)

 2007 Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later (TV Movie documentary)

 2006 Taking the Hill (TV Movie documentary) (co-director)

 2005 Off to War (TV Series documentary)

 2005 Dope Sick Love (TV Movie documentary) (co-director)