Award-winning filmmaker Brent Renaud, 50, was killed by Russian forces in a Kyiv suburb, local police say
Brent Renaud attends the annual Peabody Awards in New York in 2015.
An adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, Anton Gerashchenko, said in a statement that Renaud “paid with his life for attempting to expose the insidiousness, cruelty and ruthlessness of the aggressor," according to a New York Times report. Brent Renaud was a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker, producer, and journalist, who lived and worked in New York City and Little Rock, Arkansas, according toBrent Renaud, right, with his brother Craig Renaud at the HBO building screening area in New York City on September 19, 2007.
Putzel said Renaud was working on a documentary about refugees around the world when the crisis in Ukraine hit. He said that"Brent was on the plane the next day" and covered the plight of refugees from Kyiv into Poland. A post on the Renaud Brothers' Facebook page, dated March 8, urged readers to follow their coverage of the war Ukraine.
The director of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard said on Sunday that the foundation is"heartsick" over the death of American journalist Brent Renaud in Ukraine.
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