Acclaimed filmmaker Brent Renaud shot, killed in Ukraine

(AP) — American journalist Brent Renaud has been killed in Ukraine while gathering material for a report about refugees.

Ukraine’s Interior Ministry says the 50-year-old documentary filmmaker died Sunday in Irpin, a Kyiv suburb that has been the site of intense shelling by Russian forces in recent days.

Another journalist was wounded in the attack. Renaud won a litany of prestigious awards for documentary filmmaking including two duPont-Columbia journalism awards.

With his brother Craig, Renaud produced programs for number of American news and media organizations, including HBO and The New York Times.

They won a Peabody for “Last Chance High,” a series about at-risk youth in Chicago.

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