Ukraine: US Journalist Brent Renaud (50) was shot dead on Sunday in Irpin, a frontline suburb of Kyiv and another journalist also received wounds, that was witnessed some of the fiercest fighting in Russia-Ukraine war.

According to the papers found on the American reporters body identified as Brent Renaud of New York Times video journalist. A New York Times identity card was among the papers, leading to reports he worked for the paper, but the US daily said he was not working for it at the time of his death.

The International Federation of Journalists identified the wounded reporter as American photographer Juan Arredondo. A third victim, a Ukrainian who had been in the same car as the Americans, was also wounded, according to a medic at the scene.

According to the news reports in Irpin saw Ukrainian volunteer soldiers rush the body on a stretcher to a more secure location before laying it out on the ground for further identification. Danylo Shapovalov, a surgeon volunteering for the Ukrainian territorial defence, said Renaud died instantly from a gunshot wound to his neck. The New York Times called Renaud “a talented photographer and filmmaker” who last contributed to the paper in 2015.