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(CNN) --
Police in the Kyiv region said Sunday that two other journalists were wounded by Russian troops.
One of the injured journalists is believed to be Colombian-American photographer Juan Arredondo, who is now in hospital, according to social media videos and international media reports.
In a Facebook post, Kyiv region police chief Andriy Nebitov stated that Russian forces killed American journalist Brent Renaud and "two other journalists were injured", adding that "the wounded have already been rescued and transferred to a hospital in the capital. At the moment it is unknown what state they are in."
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Images of a journalist identified as Juan Arredondo at the Okhmatdyt hospital in Kyiv have appeared on social networks, in which he describes being shot by Russian forces as he passed through a checkpoint in Irpin (Ukraine), while on his way to record refugees leaving the city.
"There were two of us, my friend Brent Renaud. And they shot him and left him behind," Arredondo said in the video, adding that Renaud was shot in the neck.
"We split up and they put me in the [points to stretcher]... an ambulance, I don't know."
Arredondo, a filmmaker and visual journalist who is also an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School, posted photos from Zhytomyr, Ukraine, on Saturday, noting in an Instagram post that he is "#onassignment."
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Columbia Journalism School Dean Steve Coll told CNN: "We don't have any independent information about his injuries at this time, but we're working now to find out more and see if we can help."
The Committee to Protect Journalists also referred to Arredondo's injuries in a statement published this Sunday, in which the organization also denounced the shooting and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
Arredondo is a 2019 Harvard Nieman Scholar. His photographs have been published in The New York Times, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, ESPN, Vanity Fair and other media outlets, according to his personal website biography.
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