Fox News has reported the death of one of its cameramen covering the war in Ukraine. This is the second American journalist killed since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24th.
A Fox News cameraman was killed while covering the war in Ukraine, the US broadcaster reported Tuesday.
Pierre Zakrzewski accompanied journalist Benjamin Hall, who was injured in a gun attack on their car on Monday in Gorenka near Kiev, Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said in a statement. She added that she has been living in London and in Ukraine since February.
“Pierre was a war photographer who covered virtually every international event for Fox News, from Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria,” Suzanne Scott explained.
In December, he received the Fox News “Unobtrusive Hero” award, in particular for “playing a key role in the evacuation of our Afghan freelancers and their families after the withdrawal of Americans from Afghanistan,” the head of the network emphasized.
Four journalists killed since invasion began
Benjamin Hall, a British citizen and Fox News correspondent at the State Department, remains in a hospital in Ukraine, she said. He was wounded by shrapnel in his legs and placed in intensive care, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Irina Venediktova said on Monday.
Pierre Zakrzewski is the fourth journalist to be killed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
American Brent Renault was shot dead on Sunday in a northwestern suburb of Kyiv, Ukrainian journalist Yevhen Sakun died in a TV tower explosion in Kyiv, and Ukrainian Viktor Dudar died during fighting near Nikolaev (south), Ukrainian authorities say, which also counted more than 30 wounded among members of the press covering the conflict.