U.S. Journalist Brent Renaud Killed in Ukraine in Shooting Near Kyiv
Published Date: 3/13/2022
Source: Bloomberg Quicktake: Now
“My friend is Brent Renaud and he's been shot and left behind.” From a hospital bed, Juan Arredondo described his eye-witness account of the attack that killed U.S. journalist Brent Renaud on Sunday while covering the war in Ukraine. covering the war in Ukraine in what may be the first foreign journalist killed in the conflict, according to multiple media and government reports. Brent Renaud, 50, an award-winning filmmaker who had covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was shot in Irpin, north of the capital of Kyiv. Another journalist with Renaud was reportedly injured in the shooting in a suburb of Kyiv that has been under Russian attack. The two were traveling in a car that was fired on by Russian troops, the Kyiv police said on their Facebook page. Renaud had been a regular contributor to the New York Times. Clifford Levy, deputy managing editor at the Times, tweeted that Renaud last worked for the newspaper in 2015. The news that a U.S. journalist in Ukraine was killed by Russians is “obviously shocking and horrifying,” Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. Sullivan said he’s asking questions about how it happened. Earlier this month Sky News correspondent Stuart Ramsay was shot in the lower back after his car was ambushed as he and other colleagues were driving back to Kyiv. Ramsay has since returned to the U.K. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2TwO8Gm Subscribe to our newest channel Quicktake Explained: https://bit.ly/3iERrup Bloomberg Quicktake brings you live global news and original shows spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Make sense of the stories changing your business and your world. To watch complete coverage on Bloomberg Quicktake 24/7, visit http://www.bloomberg.com/qt/live, or watch on Apple TV, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Fire TV and Android TV on the Bloomberg app. Have a story to tell? Fill out this survey for a chance to have it featured on Bloomberg Quicktake: https://cor.us/surveys/27AF30 Connect with us on… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Bloomberg Breaking News on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloombergQuickTakeNews Twitter: https://twitter.com/quicktake Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quicktake Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quicktake