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

Cameraman was reporting near Kyiv alongside foreign-affairs correspondent Benjamin Hall when their vehicle was struck by fire

By Edward Era Barbacena

Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski was killed on assignment covering the war in Ukraine, network chief Suzanne Scott told employees Tuesday.

Mr. Zakrzewski was reporting near Kyiv alongside foreign-affairs correspondent Benjamin Hall when their vehicle was struck by fire, Ms. Scott said in a note to staff.

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 said in her note.

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. 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 cross hairs of Putin’s forces right now.”

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