Ukrainian police officer implores correspondent to ‘tell America’ what Russians did to ‘a journalist’

A Ukrainian police officer on the grotesque scene the place an American journalist was shot and killed and no less than two others had been wounded by Russian forces Sunday had a gut-wrenching message.  

“Inform America, inform the world, what they did to a journalist,” the outraged officer instructed PBS correspondent Jane Ferguson from the roadside scene close to Irpin, exterior of Kyiv, the place the physique of American journalist and former The New York Instances contributor Brent Renaud was mendacity beneath a blanket.

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Renaud was not on task for The Instances in Ukraine however contributed to the newspaper prior to now, most just lately in 2015, a NYT spokeswoman instructed Fox Information Digital. He and one other journalist had been reportedly headed to Irpin to take images of refugees fleeing the world and had been supplied a trip. Preliminary studies mentioned Russian forces fired upon their automotive, however Fox Information has not independently confirmed who fired. 

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Pravda Gerashchenko, an adviser to the Minister of Inside Affairs of Ukraine, shared a video on Telegram purportedly exhibiting the wounded American journalist mendacity on a hospital mattress within the capital, telling a spokeswoman for the Okhmatdyt Hospital recording him that he was separated from his colleague, Renaud, who was left behind. Ukrainian Parliament additionally shared the video on Twitter.  

The person, who mentioned his identify was Juan and he was from the U.S., described how each he and Renaud approached a second bridge within the automotive and crossed a checkpoint close to Irpin after they had been fired upon. 

Talking whereas medical employees attended to his wound, he mentioned he was dropped at the hospital by an ambulance and didn’t know the standing of his colleague. Preliminary studies identified him as Juan Arredondo, and an Instagram account with the identical identify mentioned he was a journalist for Nationwide Geographic and an adjunct professor at Columbia College. 

Fox Information has not independently recognized him or his employment standing, and requests for remark to NatGeo and Columbia went unanswered Sunday. 

In an look on CNN Sunday, Nationwide Safety Adviser Jake Sullivan mentioned he simply heard studies about an American journalist killed earlier than approaching air and nonetheless wanted to verify info. 

“If in reality an American journalist was killed, it’s a stunning and horrifying occasion,” Sullivan instructed CNN host Dana Bash. “It’s yet another instance of the brutality of Vladimir Putin and his forces. They’ve focused colleges and mosques and hospitals and journalists. And it’s why we’re working so laborious to impose extreme penalties on him and to attempt to assist the Ukrainians with each type of navy help we will muster to have the ability to push again towards the onslaught of those Russian forces.” 

The Foremost Directorate of the Nationwide Police in Kyiv Area first tweeted images purportedly exhibiting a bloodied Renaud, his U.S. passport and his picture ID badge for The New York Instances enclosed in a holder labeled U.S. peacemaker. In one other video from the scene of the capturing, Ukrainian police officer Alexander Bugai mentioned that along with 51-year-old Renaud being killed, two others had been wounded. 

It wasn’t instantly clear if a 3rd journalist was shot or if it was the motive force of the automotive injured. A graphic picture included within the submit appeared to point out a gunshot wound that pierced Renaud’s cranium. 

Based on his bio on IMBD, Renaud was a Peabody and DuPont Award successful filmmaker and spent the previous twenty years producing movies and tv applications along with his brother Craig. 

“The Renaud Brothers are finest identified for telling humanistic tales from the World’s sizzling spots and their tasks have lined the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the earthquake in Haiti, political turmoil in Egypt and Libya, the battle for Mosul, extremism in Africa, cartel violence in Mexico, and the youth refugee disaster in Central America,” in accordance with the biography. 

Their work has received lots of the prime awards in tv and journalism, together with a Peabody Award, two Columbia DuPont Awards, two Abroad Press Membership Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award, an IDA Award, a DGA nomination for Finest Administrators and a number of Emmy nominations, the bio mentioned.