US film-maker Brent Renaud killed by Russian forces in Ukraine
by Peter Beaumont in Lviv and Martin Pengelly in New from World news | The Guardian on (#5X27P)
Award-winning journalist and a colleague, who survived, were fired on near checkpoint in Irpin
Brent Renaud, an award-winning US film-maker whose work has appeared in the New York Times and other outlets, has been killed by Russian forces in the flashpoint town of Irpin, outside Kyiv. A US photographer, Juan Arredondo, was wounded.
Renaud, 51, was hit in the neck and died after coming under Russian fire while working on Sunday, according to local police officials and multiple Ukrainian sources.
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