The testimony of the journalist who accompanied Brent Renaud when they were attacked by Russian troops

Juan Diego Herrera was with Renaud when the Russian attack began. They were recording a group of refugees trying to leave Irpin, the town brutally hit by a Russian bombing on the outskirts of Kyiv. He is 46 years old, he received a shrapnel wound in the thigh and is now undergoing surgery at the Okhmatdyt children’s, located near the area of ​​the incident.

Herrera tells who he is in this video as a testimony that he is alive. He still doesn’t know that his partner Renaud died.

The American journalist was killed this Sunday in Irpin, a northwestern suburb of Kyiv located on the front line, doctors and witnesses told AFP.

Renaud and Herrera were hit by bullets while driving with a Ukrainian civilian, who was also injured, Danylo Shapovalov, a volunteer doctor from Ukraine’s territorial defence who treated the victims, told the AFP agency. The agency also reports that a journalist assigned to Irpin saw the victim’s body.

Renaud was a contributor to The New York Times until 2015, as reported by the US media in a statement, in which he also explained that he was not assigned by the medium for this coverage. “We are dismayed by the news of his death,” says The New York Times in the text.

The medium explained that the first data indicated that he worked for NYT because he was wearing a press badge from the medium that had been issued for a previous mission.