The companion of the American journalist murdered in Ukraine spoke: “They shot him in the neck”

After Russian forces assassinated the American journalist Brent Renaud In the Ukrainian city of Irpin, a video was released of his partner, Juan Diego Herrera Arredondo, 46, who was injured in the same episode. While receiving medical attention after the attack, Herrera Arredondo told what happened, even without knowing that Renaud -who was a collaborator of New York Times– was dead.

“I am Juan, from the United States”, The journalist introduces himself in a video shared by his peer Annalisa Camilli. We crossed the first bridge in Irpinwe were going to film other refugees who were leaving, we got in a car, someone offered to take us to the other bridgewe crossed a checkpoint and they started shooting at us”, Herrera Arredondo specified, which continued: “The driver turned around and they kept shooting. My friend is Brent Renaud, he was shot and left behind.”

As they treated him, the journalist was asked how Renaud was doing and he limited himself to saying: “I don’t know, I saw that he was shot in the neck and we parted ways. And they brought me here, an ambulance brought me, I don’t know.”

Among the identity documents of the victim was a press accreditation from New York Timeswhich generated confusion at first, when the information from the Ukrainian police authorities indicated that it was a journalist from this medium.

Among the identity documents of the victim was a press accreditation from New York Timeswhich generated confusion at first, when the information from the Ukrainian police authorities indicated that it was a journalist from this medium.

Minutes later, however, the deputy editor-in-chief of the New York Times Cliff Levy used his Twitter account to explain that Renaud once collaborated with the newspaper – the last time, in 2015 -, but that he was not assigned to cover the war in Ukraine for this newspaper.

“Initial reports that he worked for The Times they circulated because I was using a press credential from this outlet, which had been issued for an assignment many years ago.” Levy clarified.

Meanwhile, the Russian bombing does not stop, on the eighteenth day of the invasion of Ukraine. Today reported at least 35 dead and 134 wounded in an attack in Lviv, a city near the border with Poland where various foreign embassies that left Kiev had moved in recent weeks.

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