- Fox News’ Benjamin Hall returned to the airwaves after surviving a devastating attack in Ukraine.
- Hall lost an eye and a leg in a missile attack that killed two of his colleagues.
- He described his narrow escape and his determination to get home and get back to work.
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A Fox News reporter who was seriously injured in Ukraine last year returned for his first live broadcast on Thursday, describing how he survived a missile attack that killed two of his colleagues.
Benjamin Hall’s team was reporting for Fox News near Horenka on the outskirts of Kyiv Oblast on March 14, 2022 when their vehicle was hit by a missile.
While Hall survived, 24-year-old Ukrainian fixer Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova and Irish photographer Pierre Zakrzewski were killed.
Speaking to Fox and Friends, the British-born Hall described his narrow escape from the devastating strike, his determination to get home and the mental toughness it took during his recovery.
“You ask me how I’m doing — I have one leg, I have no feet, I see through an eye, I have a working hand, I was burned all over,” he said. “And I feel stronger and more confident than ever.”
An insider investigation released last year investigated the circumstances of the assignment and profiled the young Kuvshynova.
The Washington Post also published an investigation into Zakrzewski’s death and detailed his wife’s search for answers.
Fox News’ Oleksandra Kuvshynova (second from right), Pierre Zakrzewski (far left) and Trey Yingst, who work in Ukraine. FoxNews
Hall has now written a book about the experience and his recovery, due out by HarperCollins in March.
Reading an excerpt, he described how, through the shock of the blast, he heard his daughter’s voice – “as real as anything I’ve ever known” – telling him to get out of the car.
He said he knew even then that he would fight to get home, saying, “I’ll crawl if I have to.”
Hall has been a State Department correspondent for Fox News since 2015 and has extensive experience reporting from conflict zones.
When asked what his message to viewers was, he said: “When you’re going through something like I’ve been through, the ups, the downs, you have to have purpose. You have to get something to fight for.”
For him, the goal is to return and work as a journalist.
In 2022, Ukraine had the highest number of journalist deaths in the world, with 15 reporters and media workers killed in the conflict, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.