Sullivan: US to issues consequences for Russia killing US journalist

Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan calls Russian troops killing an American journalist ‘shocking and horrifying’ and claims US will ‘execute appropriate consequences’

  • National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan warned the U.S. will ‘execute appropriate consequences after Russian troops shot and killed an American journalist
  • Brent Renaud, 51, was filming refugees crossing the border in Irpen, Ukraine
  • Russian troops opened fire on the car he was in with other foreign press 
  • Trump-era Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said:’This is is the kind of thing that happens when you fail at the core missions of American security’
  • Claimed Biden did not ‘deter the bad guys from continued aggression, 
  • Renaud was carrying a badge that listed the New York Times as his publication
  • The Times says he is a freelancer who was not there on assignment for them 
  • Ukrainian police announced his death and said he ‘paid his life trying to show the ruthlessness’ of Putin’s army 
  • One other American journalist who survived was filmed in the hospital 
  • He said Renaud was shot in the neck and ‘had to be left behind’ 
  • The White Hose has not yet commented on Renaud’s death – he is believed to be the first American to die in the conflict  

Jake Sullivan warned President Vladimir Putin on Sunday that there will be ‘appropriate consequences’ after Russian troops shot and killed an American journalist in Ukraine.

‘Well, this is obviously shocking and horrifying,’ Sullivan told NBC’s Face the Nation on Sunday morning. ‘I’ve just learned about it as I came on to air here.’

‘I will be consulting with my colleagues, we’ll be consulting with the Ukrainians to determine how this happened and then to measure and execute appropriate consequences as a result of it,’Biden’s national security adviser added.

The White House did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com request for comment from President Joe Biden. It is also not clear if there will be additional action taken by the U.S. in response to the new boundary crossed by Russia on its 17th day of invasion in Ukraine.

American freelance filmmaker Brent Renaud, 51, was shot dead while covering the war in Ukraine, Kyiv police announced on Sunday.

Renaud was in a car with other journalists in Irpin, Ukraine when Russian troops opened fire. He was shot dead and one of his colleagues was injured.

‘I’m obviously sad for that journalist – the journalist’s family. But this is the kind of thing that happens when you fail at the core missions of American security, which is to deter the bad guys from continued aggression,’ Trump-era Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News Sunday host Maria Bartiromo.

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan warned Sunday that the U.S. will ‘measure and execute appropriate consequences as a result of’ Russian troops shooting and killing an American journalist covering the war in Ukraine

Freelance video journalist Brent Renaud, 51, was in a truck with other journalists in Irpen when Russian troops opened fire. He was shot and killed

Renaud was in Irpin, Ukraine covering the refugee crisis as people flee the country on the 17th day of Russian invasion. Pictured: Refugees flee Ukraine at the Vysne Nemecke border crossing on Sunday, March 13, 2022

‘The Biden administration has been behind since last summer – we think about this now as being less than three weeks old – but of course we’ve known for months that Vlaidmir Putin was building forces and building capability,’ he added. ‘We should have been helping the Ukrainians building forces and capability. And we were too late, too slow, too small at every turn. We still are.’

Initially, Renaud was thought to have been on assignment for The New York Times because he was carrying a press badge that listed the newspaper as his publication. The Times, however, clarified that he was not on assignment for the newspaper when he was shot and killed.

Another U.S. journalist who survived the attack spoke to a reporter for Italian paper Internazionale from the hospital.He said Renaud had been shot in the neck and ‘had to be left behind’.  

‘We had crossed the first bridge in Irpen. We were going to film other refugees leaving we got into a car. Somebody offered to take us to the other bridge.

This is the badge freelance journalist Brent Renaud was carrying when he was shot and killed in Irpen, Ukraine, today while filming refugees crossing the border 

The other US journalist in the truck has been named only as Juan. He is shown in the hospital speaking to an Italian newspaper about how they were driving across a bridge when Russian troops opened fire on them after a checkpoint 

‘We crossed a checkpoint and they started shooting at us. The driver turned around, there were two of us. My friend is Brent Renaud.

‘He has been shot and left behind. I saw he has been shot in the neck. We got split,’ he said. 

The journalist, who gave his name only as Juan, said he was taken by ambulance to the hospital.  

Sullivan said Sunday: ‘I will just say that this is part and parcel of what has been a brazen aggression on the part of the Russians where they have targeted civilians, they have targeted hospitals, they have targeted places of worship and they have targeted journalists.’

‘The United States has been working hard to hold Russia accountable through the imposition of the most far reaching sanctions ever imposed and through the provision of military assistance to the Ukrainians to be able to blunt the Russian advance,’ he continued.

He warned: ‘We will obviously be tracking this latest development very closely and responding accordingly.’

PBS reporter Jane Ferguson, who is in Ukraine, tweeted: ‘Just left roadside spot near Irpin where body of American journalist Brent Renaud lay under a blanket. Ukrainian medics could do nothing to help him by that stage. 

‘Outraged Ukrainian police officer: ‘Tell America, tell the world, what they did to a journalist.” 

The Times has however issued a statement to clarify that while Renaud worked for them in the past, he was not in Ukraine 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. 

Renaud with his brother, another filmmaker. The pair are experienced in conflict zones and are understood to have been filming refugees crossing the border when they were killed

‘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,’ Cliff Levy, Deputy Managing Editor, said in a statement. 

The White House has not commented on Renaud’s death. 

President Biden has taken a firm stance on not sending American troops into the conflict. 

He has instead sanctioned Putin economically, along with the rest of the Western world, and has given Zelensky arms and aid. 

Renaud was from Tennessee. It’s unclear if he is married or if he has a family.  

The New York Times’ Deputy Managing Editor Cliff Levy tweeted that Renaud was not on assignment for the newspaper when he was killed

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