Pierre Zakrzewski, along with reporter Benjamin Hall, came under fire outside the capital Kyiv, Fox News Media executive Suzanne Scott said on Tuesday. Hall was injured in the attack, it said. Zakrzewski has been working in Ukraine since February. The 55-year-old was a war photographer who reported on almost all international stories for Fox.
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His “courage, his professionalism and his work ethic” were known to journalists from all media, the broadcaster said. Correspondent Hall was injured in the incident on Monday and continued to be treated in hospital on Tuesday, according to the broadcaster. More details about his health were not known. The killed Zakrzewski was an “absolute legend of this station and his loss is disturbing,” Fox News host Bill Hemmer said on television. Zakrzewski had worked for the station for years. He reported from Iraq to Syria to Afghanistan.
According to Ukrainian sources, US journalist Brent Renaud was shot at and killed by Russian soldiers not far from Kyiv at the weekend. According to information from Kyiv, at least four journalists have been killed and more than 30 injured since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. In addition to the US journalist Brent Renaud, two Ukrainian reporters were also killed by Russian fire, Lyudmyla Denisova, the human rights commissioner of the Ukrainian parliament, wrote on Telegram on Tuesday.
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Viktor Dudar was killed near the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, and cameraman Yevhen Sakun was killed in a rocket attack in Kyiv. “The Russian occupiers are fighting against objective reporting of their war crimes in Ukraine, they are killing and shooting at journalists,” Denisova claimed. Foreign reporters were also fired on in a targeted manner. Several journalists were injured, including a Swiss and two Danes. A crew from the British broadcaster Sky News filmed how they were shot at in Bucha, north-west of Kyiv. Reporter Stuart Ramsay was injured.
So far, Russia has deliberately destroyed or hit several television towers, including in Kyiv and near Rivne in north-western Ukraine. This is to make communication more difficult. There were several deaths.
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