US citizen killed in Russian shelling in Ukraine

By AP 17 March 2022, 9:48 pm

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This picture taken on March 4, 2022, shows a residential building damaged during a shelling the day before in the city of Chernihiv. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP)

WASHINGTON — The US State Department confirms an American citizen was killed in a Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv.

The department did not immediately confirm the identity of the American, who was at least the second US citizen to be killed in the conflict, after the killing of journalist and filmmaker Brent Renaud last week.

Chernihiv police say on Facebook there was a heavy artillery attack on the city and a US citizen was among the civilians killed.

In Chernihiv, a city north of Kyiv, at least 53 people had been brought to morgues over the past 24 hours, killed during heavy Russian air attacks and ground fire, the local governor, Viacheslav Chaus, tells Ukrainian TV.