A Fox News cameraman was killed while covering the war in Ukraine, the American television network announced on Tuesday.
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Pierre Zakrzewski was accompanying journalist Benjamin Hall, who was injured when their vehicle was fired upon Monday in Horenka, near Kyiv, Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said in a statement.
Based in London, he had been in Ukraine since February, she added.
“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 award for “Unobtrusive Hero”, in particular for having “played a key role in the evacuation of our Afghan freelancers and their families after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan”, underlined the head of the chain.
Benjamin Hall, a British national and Fox News correspondent at the State Department, remains hospitalized in Ukraine, she said.
He was injured in the legs by shrapnel and placed in intensive care, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova said on Monday.
Pierre Zakrzewski is the fourth journalist killed since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
American Brent Renaud was shot dead on Sunday in the northwestern suburbs of Kyiv, Ukrainian journalist Yevgeny Sakoun was killed in the bombing of the television tower in Kyiv and Ukrainian Viktor Doudar died during fighting near of Mykolaiv (south), according to the Ukrainian authorities who also counted more than 30 wounded among the members of the press covering the conflict.