Fox News Cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski Killed While Covering Ukraine-Russia War

Based in London, Mr. Zakrzewski was a war photographer who had covered several major conflicts for Fox News, including in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, the network said.

“His talents were vast and there wasn’t a role that he didn’t jump in to help with in the field—from photographer to engineer to editor to producer—and he did it all under immense pressure with tremendous skill,” Ms. Scott, the CEO of Fox News Media, said in her note.

Since the Russia-Ukraine war began, journalists have been shot at, beaten and jailed while covering the conflict and protests, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Another journalist, Ukrainian

Yevhenii Sakun,

was killed earlier this month when Russian military forces shelled a television tower.

Last year, Mr. Zakrzewski was recognized internally at the network with an “Unsung Hero” award for helping to get Afghan freelance associates and their families out of the country. Mr. Zakrzewski was an Irish citizen.

Micheál Martin,

Ireland’s prime minister, said in a statement that he is “deeply disturbed and saddened” by Mr. Zakrzewski’s killing.

Mr. Hall is hospitalized in Ukraine. He joined the network in 2015 and has reported from the front lines in Syria and Iraq, according to his author page on Fox News’s website.

Mr. Zakrzewski was the second journalist working for U.S.media to be killed covering the war in recent days. On Sunday,

Brent Renaud,

a journalist who was on assignment for Time Studios, was shot and killed near the front line of the war.

Andrey Nebitov,

a police official in the Kyiv region, blamed the killing on Russian troops and said two other correspondents were injured.

Before he was injured earlier this week, Mr. Hall told Fox News viewers that Mr. Renaud’s death was a reminder that the violence in Ukraine affects everyone in harm’s way.

“It’s not about the journalists,” Mr. Hall said. “A reminder of the dangers that are faced by the civilians. This war is indiscriminate. Children, pregnant women, elderly. All in the crosshairs of Putin’s forces right now.”

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