Russian forces opened fire in the town of Irpin, Ukraine, on Sunday, resulting in one American journalist being killed and another being injured, Ukrainian police said.
The journalist, Brent Renaud, a 50-year-old filmmaker who has produced projects for HBO and Vice News and contributed to the New York Times, was reportedly killed after Russian troops opened fire, Andriy Nebytov reported.
Nebytov is the head of the regional police force in Kyiv, and he posted a graphic photo of Renaud's body on Facebook. The images also showed his passports and New York Times media credentials.
According to the translation feature on Facebook, Nebytov wrote in his post that Renaud "paid [with] his life for trying to highlight the aggressor's ingenuity, cruelty and ruthlessness."
The photos can be seen here, but beware they are graphic.
The town of Irpin is just outside of the nation's capital, Kyiv, and last week it made headlines when three members of a family were killed by an artillery strike while attempting to flee the fighting.
The New York Times commented on Renaud's death, saying he was "a talented filmmaker who had contributed to The New York Times over the years." However, the statement added that he "was not on assignment for any desk at The Times in Ukraine."
Sunday morning, on CBS News' "Face the Nation," White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that the news of Renaud's death was "shocking and horrifying."
Sullivan went on to say that the killing will result in "appropriate consequences" against Russia from the U.S.
"I will just say that this is part and parcel of what has been a brazen aggression on the part of the Russians where they have targeted civilians, they have targeted hospitals, they have targeted places of worship, and they have targeted journalists," Sullivan said.
In 2015 Renaud won two Peabody awards for an eight-part documentary he made about a school in Chicago for students with severe emotional issues.
He was known for reporting in numerous danger zones, going into Iraq, Afghanistan, and Egypt throughout the last 20 years.
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