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Kyiv - A United States journalist working in Ukraine has been shot dead in the town of Irpin, outside Kyiv, police say. Brent Renaud, 50, was a journalist and filmmaker who had previously worked for the New York Times. Kyivs police chief Andriy Nebytov said he had been targeted by Russian soldiers. Two other journalists were injured and taken to hospital. It is the first reported death of a foreign …

An award-winning US journalist working in Ukraine, Brent Renaud, has been shot dead in Irpin, outside Kyiv, on Sunday 13 March. Ukrainian police said he had been targeted by Russian soldiers. Two other journalists were injured and taken to hospital. It is the first reported death of a foreign journalist covering the war in Ukraine. The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) condemn the killing and call for the killers to be brought to justice.

It is the first reported death of a foreign journalist covering the war in Ukraine.

LONDON: Reporters without Borders announced on Friday it would be launching a press freedom body in Lviv, Ukraine, with its local partner the Institute for Mass Information, that would provide training and protective gear for journalists working under life-threatening conditions in the war-ravaged nation. The Lviv Press Freedom Center would urgently seek aid to purchase

The New York Times will temporarily pull its reporters out of Russia in wake of a new censorship law passed by President Vladimir Putin.

A British television crew was ambushed outside Kyiv earlier this week, leaving one journalist wounded, their employer Sky News said. Stuart Ramsay, chief correspondent at Sky News, was hit by a bullet in the lower back on Monday as they drove towards the Ukrainian capital. Sky News showed footage of the attack late Friday.

Corporation had suspended operations after authorities passed Ukraine invasion ‘fake news’ law carrying sentence of up to 15 years

Sky News' Mark Austin writes a second diary from Ukraine for Press Gazette: His retreat from Kyiv and reaction to the attack on Stuart Ramsay and team.

F15 fighter jets, B52 bombers and 'high level surveillance planes' have been flying in an out of RAF Fairford today (March 7)

The chief correspondent was wounded in his lower back while the cameraman took two rounds to his body armour.