War in Ukraine: Police confirm death of US journalist in Irpin

War in Ukraine: Police confirm death of US journalist in Irpin

A US journalist has been killed in an attack in Ukraine. A colleague was injured in the attack in the Irpin suburb, northwest of Kyiv, according to local police.

According to Ukrainian sources, a US journalist was killed and another injured in Ukraine. The two men came under fire in the town of Irpin, about ten kilometers north-west of the capital Kyiv. The information was also shared by the adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Anton Herashchenko, on the Telegram news channel.

Contested place near Kyiv

A Ukrainian member of parliament published a video on Twitter, which is said to show the colleague injured by a shrapnel in the pelvic area in a Kiev hospital. In it, the man says they were shot at from a checkpoint in the contested village. According to Ukrainian sources, Russian soldiers fired. There was initially no official reaction to the allegations from Moscow.

The US newspaper contradicted reports that the man killed was a reporter for the New York Times. The journalist has worked for the newspaper in the past, but has now not worked for the “Times” in Ukraine. We are “deeply saddened” by reports of the filmmaker’s death.

Video of injured journalist

The deputy editor-in-chief of the “Bild” newspaper, Paul Ronzheimer, had previously said that the injured journalist was rescued.

Source: Stern

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