A US journalist and filmmaker was killed on Sunday outside Kyiv, according to regional police and a government official. According to Al Jazeera, the news of Brent Renaud's death was confirmed by in a statement issued by the Kyiv police force and by an advisor to Ukraine’s interior minister.
A journalist who had been with Renaud at the time said Renaud had been shot in the neck. He said they had been "filming refugees fleeing the area when they were shot at while in a car approaching a checkpoint. The driver turned around but the firing at them continued", Al Jazeera reported.
