Two more journalists who were in Ukraine to report on the invasion of Russia were killed. Pierre Zakrzewski, a senior war photographer and cameraman working for Fox News in the war zone, and Oleksandra Kuvshynova, a young Ukrainian journalist, died as a result of a shot fired at the vehicle they were in in Horenka, about 30 kilometers outside Kiev. It was announced that British journalist and Fox News correspondent, Benjamin Hall, was also with the duo and was injured in the attack. Hall’s treatment is ongoing.
“We learned the news about our beloved cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski this morning and we share it with great sadness,” Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott expressed in a statement. “Pierre was a war zone photographer who shot almost every international story for Fox News, from Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria, during his long tenure with us,” she said.
Scott Griffen, deputy director of the International Press Institute, also said in a statement that journalists “Bravely risked their lives to make the world understand the true horror of what happened in Ukraine.”
2 Journalists was killed earlier in Russia’s ongoing attacks in Ukraine. On March 13, former New York Times reporter Brent Renaud and cameraman Yevhneii Sakun, who worked for a television station in Ukraine during the first week of the war, were killed in Russian attacks.