Reporters Without Borders (RSF) today called for an investigation to clarify the death of the American journalist Brent Renaud, who, according to the Kiev police, was killed by Russian forces in the Ukrainian town of Irpin.
“We ask that the circumstances of the death of documentary filmmaker Brent Renaud and the injuries suffered by the journalist who accompanied him on the outskirts of Kiev be clarified. Journalists cannot be a target in a war!” he denounced on social networks. RSF, based in Paris.
The death of Renaud, 51, was initially confirmed by the Kiev Police, who blamed the Russian forces for the event.
At first, it was disclosed that he was a journalist for The New York Times, information later denied by said newspaper, with which Renaud had collaborated a few years ago.
With the death today of American cameraman Brent Renaud, there are at least ten journalists who have been violently killed in Ukraine since the 2014 crisis began in Crimea and the provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk, in the eastern Donbas region.
Renaud is the first media worker killed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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