US journalist killed in Ukraine

A US journalist working in Ukraine has been shot dead in the town of Irpin, outside Kyiv, reported British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), quoting police.

Brent Renaud, 50, was a journalist and filmmaker who was working in the region for Time.

Kyiv's 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 journalist covering the war in Ukraine.

One of the injured journalists, Juan Arredondo, told an Italian reporter he had been with Renaud when they came under fire.

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