Police in the Kiev region said on Sunday that two other journalists had been wounded by the Russian military. According to social media videos and international media reports, one of the injured journalists is Colombian-American photographer Juan Arredondo, who is now in hospital.
In a Facebook post, Kiev Region police chief Andrei Nebitov said Russian forces had killed American journalist Brent Renault and that “two more journalists were injured,” adding that “the victims have already been rescued and taken to the capital’s hospital.” What condition they are in is still unknown.
Footage of a journalist named Juan Arredondo in the Okhmatdet hospital in Kyiv has surfaced on social media, describing how he was shot at by the Russian military as he drove through a checkpoint in Irpen, Ukraine, while on his way to film refugees fleeing the city.
“There were two of us, my friend Brent Renault. He was shot and thrown,” Arredondo said in the video, adding that Reno was shot in the neck. “We were separated and I was dragged into [points to stretcher] … ambulance, I don’t know.”
Arredondo, a filmmaker and visual journalist who is also an associate professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, posted photos from Zhytomyr, Ukraine on Saturday, noting in an Instagram post that he was “#onassignment.”
Columbia School of Journalism dean Steve Call told CNN: “We don’t have any independent information on his injuries at this time, but we’re working now to find out more and see if we can help.”
The Committee to Protect Journalists also noted Arredondo’s injuries in a statement released Sunday, in which the organization also condemned the shooting and called on those responsible to face justice.
Arredondo is a 2019 Harvard Nieman Fellow of the Year. His photographs have previously appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, ESPN, Vanity Fair, and other media outlets, according to his personal biography on the site.