INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A United States journalist was shot dead and another wounded on Sunday in Irpin, a frontline suburb of Kyiv that has witnessed some of the
fiercest fighting since Russia invaded Ukraine.Papers found on the American reporter's body identified him as 50-year-old video
documentary shooter Brent Renaud, of New York.A New York Times identity card was among the papers, leading to reports he worked for the
paper, but the United States daily said he was not working for it at the time of his death.The International Federation of Journalists
identified the wounded reporter as American photographer Juan Arredondo.A third victim, a Ukrainian who had been in the same car as the
Americans, was also wounded, according to a medic at the scene.AFP reporters in Irpin saw Ukrainian volunteer soldiers rush the body on a
stretcher to a more secure location before laying it out on the ground for further identification.Danylo Shapovalov, a surgeon volunteering
for the Ukrainian territorial defence, said Renaud died instantly from a gunshot wound to his neck.Ukrainian officials were quick to blame
Russian forces for the shooting but the exact circumstances were unclear.AFP reporters heard small arms and artillery fire in the area,
which runs along the front splitting Ukrainian positions from advancing Russian forces"The car was shot at
There were two journalists and one of ours," Shapovalov told AFP."Our guy and the journalist are wounded, I provided them first aid, the
and filmmaker" who last contributed to the paper in 2015."He was not on assignment for any desk at The Times in Ukraine," said a statement
tweeted by deputy managing editor Cliff Levy.Arredondo said in a news video shot of him in his hospital bed that the reporters' vehicle came
under attack after crossing a Ukrainian-controled checkpoint."We were going to film other refugees leaving
We got into a car, someone offered to take us to the other bridge," he said."We crossed a checkpoint and they started shooting at us, so the
driver turned around and they kept shooting."Ukrainian officials immediately blamed Russian forces for the attack, which occurred near a
bridge leading from Irpin to the flashpoint town of Bucha, now under Russian control.White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
said United States officials would consult with Kyiv to determine the circumstances of the attack."We'll be consulting with the Ukrainians
to determine how this happened and then to measure and execute appropriate consequences as a result of it," Sullivan told CBS
television.Renaud won Harvard University's Nieman Fellowship in 2019, which he used to report on a wide range of global issues, including
Black Lives Matter protests in his native Little Rock, Arkansas.His other work included an HBO documentary on heroin addiction and reports
on Africa and the Middle East, according to his official Nieman biography.Renaud becomes the first foreign reporter killed in Ukraine since
the Russian assault began on Feb
24.A Ukrainian journalist died during a Russian missile strike aimed at Kyiv's television tower, which killed five people walking in the
