Fox News Cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski Has Been Killed in Ukraine

Pierre Zakrzewski, a veteran Fox News cameraman, was killed in Ukraine during the same attack that injured the network’s correspondent Benjamin Hall. The attack took place in Horenka, near Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. Fox News, in an official statement, said Zakrzewski was killed when the vehicle that both he and Hall were riding in "was struck by incoming fire."

Over the years, Zakrzewski, an experienced wartime correspondent, covered nearly every international story for Fox including stints in Afghanistan and Syria.

Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott said that Zakrzewski had "covered nearly every international story for Fox News from Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria during his long tenure with us.” Noting that Zakrzewski’s “passion and talent as a journalist were unmatched,” she added: "He was profoundly committed to telling the story and his bravery, professionalism and work ethic were renowned among journalists at every media outlet.”

Speaking on the air, Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer said Zakrzewski was “an absolute legend at this network and his loss is devastating.”

"He was a professional, he was a journalist, and he was a friend," said Hemmer. "We here at the Fox News Channel want to offer our deepest condolences to Pierre's wife, Michelle, and his entire family. Pierre Zakrzewski was only 55 years old, and we miss him already."

Hall, on which Fox News did not provide an update, currently serves as a State Department correspondent for the Fox News channel. He has covered several wars from the frontlines and is particularly known for his work covering the Middle East,

Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra Kuvshinova was also killed in the attack, according to Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to the Ukrainian Interior Minister. Gerashchenko. He said the cause was artillery shelling by Russian forces.

Yonat Friling, a senior field producer for Fox, said Kuvshinova “did a brilliant job” working with the Fox team over the past month. "We have lost a beautiful brave woman" Friling wrote in a Twitter post. "She loved music and she was funny and kind."

Gulnoza Said, the Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), commemorated Zakrzewski and Kuvshinova in a statement.

“We are deeply saddened by the deaths of Pierre Zakrzewski and Oleksandra Kuvshynova in Ukraine while they were working with Fox News, and we are hoping that correspondent Benjamin Hall recovers from his injuries,” she said. “Reporting on this war is a vital public service, and it has already claimed the lives of at least two other journalists in just a few weeks. Ukrainian and Russian authorities must do their utmost to ensure safety of all journalists, and to thoroughly investigate attacks on the press.”

Zakrzewski is the second American journalist killed in Ukraine this week.

On Sunday, Andriy Nebytov, the head of Kyiv's regional police force, confirmed that Brent Renaud, an award-winning American journalist, was killed by Russian forces in Ukraine. “Of course, the profession of a journalist is a risk, but US citizen Brent Renaud paid his life for trying to highlight the aggressor's ingenuity, cruelty and ruthlessness,” he said, according to an automated translation of a post he made on Facebook.

While the police statement described Renaud as a Times staffer, the Times said he is a former contributor who was not on assignment in Ukraine at the time.

"We are deeply saddened to hear of Brent Renaud’s death. Brent was a talented filmmaker who had contributed to the New York Times over the years," a spokesperson told Yahoo News. "Though he had contributed to the Times in the past (most recently in 2015), he was not on assignment for any desk at the Times in Ukraine. Early reports that he worked for Times circulated because he was wearing a Times press badge that had been issued for an assignment many years ago."

At the time of his death, Renaud was working on a video project about Ukrainian refugees with the journalist Juan Arredondo, who in a video taken at Okhmatdyt hospital in Kyiv, recalled that they were shot at by Russian forces while driving through a checkpoint in Irpin, Ukraine.