US journalist shot dead in Ukraine: medic, witnesses

An American journalist Brent Renaud was shot dead and another injured in Irpin, a northwestern suburb of Kyiv, on Sunday, paramedics and eyewitnesses told AFP.

One American died immediately and he treated the other, said Danylo Shapovalov, a volunteer surgeon volunteering for the Ukrainian territorial defense.

AFP journalists in Irpin saw the victim's body. A third victim, the Ukrainian, who was in the same car as the Americans, was also injured. Ukrainian authorities blamed Russian forces for the shooting, but the exact circumstances were unclear. AFP correspondents heard small arms and artillery fire in the area.

“The car was shot at. There were two journalists and one of ours (a Ukrainian),” Shapovalov told AFP.

“Our guy and the journalist are wounded, I provided them first aid, the other one received a wound in the neck, he died immediately.”