An American journalist has been reportedly killed as he reported on the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
It is understood he was following the plight of refugees leaving the town of Irpin when he and a colleague were shot as they tried to cross through a checkpoint. He has been named in various reports as Brent Renaud.
His colleague was filmed in hospital saying they had been shot at after accepting a lift. "We were going to film refugees leaving Irpin," the man, who has not been identified, said in a video shared by Ukrainian Government social media. "Someone offered us a lift and they started shooting as as we tried to get across a checkpoint.
"The driver turned around but they kept shooting. My friend was shot and has been left behind. We got split and I got taken here by ambulance."
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Andrey Nebitov, the head of the Kyiv region police, said the filmmaker "paid his life" for reporting on the invasion. "A 51-year-old world-renowned media correspondent was shot in Irpin today," Nebitov said. "Another journalist is injured. Now they are trying to remove the victim from the war zone.
"Of course the profession of a journalist is a risk but US citizen Brent Renaud paid his life for trying to highlight the aggressor's ingenuity, cruelty, and ruthlessness."
It had initially been believed Mr Renaud was covering the conflict for the New York Times but the organisation said in a statement he was not there on assignment for them.
"We are deeply saddened to hear of Brent Renaud's death. Brent was a talented photographer and filmmaker who contributed to the New York Times over the years.
"Though he had contributed to The Times in the past (most recently in 2015) he was not on assignment for The Times in Ukraine. Early reports that he worked for The Times circulated because he was wearing a Times press badge that had been issued for an assignment many years ago."
Meanwhile waves of Russian missiles pounded a military training base close to Ukraine's border with Poland on Sunday, killing 35 people.
The attack followed Russian threats to target foreign weapons shipments that are helping Ukrainian fighters defend their country against Russia's invasion.
More than 30 Russian cruise missiles targeted the sprawling training facility that is less than 15 miles (25km) from the closest border point with Poland, according to the governor of Ukraine's western Lviv region. Poland, a member of Nato, is a key location for getting Western military aid to Ukraine.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine Lviv had largely been spared the scale of destruction unfolding further east and become a destination for residents escaping bombarded cities and for many of the nearly 2.6m refugees who have fled the country.
The training centre in Yavoriv appears to be the most westward target struck so far in the 18-day invasion.
The facility, also known as the International Peacekeeping and Security Centre, has long been used to train Ukrainian military personnel, often with instructors from the United States and other Nato countries.
It has also hosted international Nato drills. As such the site symbolises what has long been a Russian complaint – that the alliance of 30 countries is moving ever closer to Russia's borders. Russia has demanded that Ukraine drop its ambitions to join Nato.
Lviv governor Maksym Kozytskyi said most of the missiles fired on Sunday "were shot down because the air defence system worked". The ones that got through killed at least 35 people and injured 134 others, he said.
Russian fighters also fired at the airport in the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk, 155 miles (250km) from Ukraine's border with Slovakia and Hungary, in an attack the city's mayor said was intended "to sow panic and fear".
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