Two American journalists were shot by Russian forces in the town of Irpin in Ukraine's Kyiv region Sunday, one fatally.

Sources confirmed U.S. reporter Brent Renaud had been killed.

Speaking from the stretcher before being taken into surgery, Juan Arredondo gave his account of what happened during the attack.

"We crossed a checkpoint and they started shooting at us. So, the driver turned around and they kept shooting. It's two of us, my friend is Brent Renaud and he’s been shot and left behind,” he said.

At the time of the interview, Arredondo did not seem to know that Renaud had not survived the attack.

Kyiv regional police chief Andriy Nyebytov initially said the journalist killed was with the New York Times.

The Times confirmed Renaud had worked for them in the past but was not currently on assignment for them.

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