The U.S. broadcaster FOX News on Tuesday announced that cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski has died in Ukraine.
Zakrzewski, 55, was injured while on assignment with FOX News correspondent Benjamin Hall. Their vehicle was struck by incoming fire in Horenka, near Kyiv, according to a memo shared with the broadcaster’s staff.
Oleksandra Kuvshynova, a Ukrainian journalist who was with them at the time, was also killed, the adviser to Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Anton Gerashchenko, said.
Hall, the State Department correspondent for FOX, is still hospitalized and receiving treatment for injuries.
Both he and Zakrzewski were experienced journalists who had covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
Source: VOA