President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the killing by the Russian military of American journalist Brent Renaud, who worked on a project on refugees for The New York Times in Irpin, was deliberate, they knew what they were doing.

"Today [March 13], American journalist Brent Renaud was killed in Kyiv region. His colleague was wounded. It was a deliberate attack by the Russian military. They knew what they were doing. But it seems that not everyone in the West knows what they are doing," Zelensky said in a video statement on Sunday night.