Brent Renaud, an American filmmaker and journalist, was killed in the town of Irpin in Ukraine's Kyiv region on Sunday, according to Reuters.
Several media reports said he had worked for a number of news and media outlets in the past.
Kyiv regional police chief Andriy Nyebytov said the dead journalist worked for the New York Times. However, the news outlet said that the journalist had previously worked for the paper but was not currently working for it. The Times named the journalist Brent Renaud.
The police officer said another journalist was also injured during the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Nyebytov claimed that Renaud was shot by Russian forces in Irpin, but did not give details of the incident. He did not identify the wounded journalist.
"Another journalist was wounded. We are currently trying to take the victim out of the combat zone," he said in a statement.