New York Times issues with a statement about the death of journalist in Ukraine

According to the Times, Renaud had been working for years on this medium, but since 2015 he has stopped working for them, which suggests that in Ukraine he was not on duty as a New York Times journalist.

We are deeply grieved when we hear of Brent Renaud's death. Brent was a talented director who had contributed to The New York Times over the years. Although he had contributed to The Times in the past (finally 2015), he was not in charge of The Times in Ukraine”, the Times wrote on Twitter.

According to them, reports that he was in Ukraine as a Times journalist circulated because he wore a badge of this medium, donated to him years earlier.

The early “Reports that he worked for Times circulated because he wore a Times press badge that was issued for a task many years ago”.