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1.American citizen with a NYT press card (not employed by NYT since 2015) shot dead in a small fire attack at Irpen Checkpoint. Most probably by Ukranian territorial defense.
2. Another wounded American describes the same incident in Ukrainian hospital. Says we're shot at checkpoint.
Ukrainian territorial defense member gives his take on an incident, you can see concrete blocks of a checkpoint in the rear.
4. On a previous video the person said that shooting happened in Romanovka before Irpen which only has Ukranian checkpoints yet.
Video of body evacuation.
5. The maire of Irpen confirming today that 30% of the city is under Ukrainian control.
«На сегодня Ирпень не захвачен. 70% - это наш, украинский город. За 30% мы ведем бои», - мэр Ирпеня Александр Маркушин
6. NYT confirms that Brent Renaud wasn't working for NYT.
7. Ukrainian territorial defense randomly shoots at checkpoints.
Head of Irpen declares that journalists are no longer allowed to Irpen as they expose military positions put soldiers in danger by taking photos and videos.
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It is claimed that they were detained on 23 of March, but it is not clear if they were detained by Russia or SBU.
Ukrainian officials claimed they were on prisoner exchange list this should be easily verifiable.
Here is a link to the interview of a girlfriend of Alexander Suhenko
She affirms that she was informed that the family was on prisoner exchange list, details unclear, but we know at least one similar case. Mayor of Melitopol was exchanged for 7 Ru POWs.
But we also have very different examples from SBU.
On 24th of March the Mayor of Kupiansk recorded a video plea to Zelensky and SBU to release his kidnapped daughter, after she was taken hostage because of his collaboration with Russia.
Borodyanka, where Ukranian MRLS attack on Russian column destroyed 2 residential buildings.
As always Russia was blamed or implicitly assumed to be responsible.
In reality buildings were destroyed by Ukrainian MRLS shelling came from North East in a direction of a Lenin street on which column was moving. Most rockets seem to have hit those 2 buildings.
Video of Russian vehicles destroyed in this attack. Multiple impacts of MRLS rockets can be seen around.
Here is the long video, we can see clearly that civilians on the street were caught in a midst of recent fighting during Ukranian counter-offensive on the street.