Destroyed military equipment of the Armed Forces of UkraineWASHINGTON, Mar 13American journalist Brent Reno, who died in Ukraine, has been working in recent weeks on a video project of the Time publishing house, the company's management said. Earlier, the New York Times said that the publication was saddened by the death of journalist Brent Reno in the city of Irpen near Kiev. The reporter's identification was found on the reporter's side, but according to the newspaper, he had not worked for him for a long time.U.S. and Ukraine consult over reports of journalist's death «Brent has been in the region in recent weeks working on a TIME Studios project centered on the global refugee crisis,» U.S. publishing house executives said in a statement. Accompanying Reno, U.S. photographer Juan Diego Arrendondo was shot in the back. While in one of the Kiev hospitals, he said that in Irpen they were filming the evacuation of civilians, they crossed the checkpoint in a passing car, from where the shooting began. On the video posted on Instagram, he does not specify who exactly shot them. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Russian President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian President emphasized.
