Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski killed in Ukraine

A cameraman for Fox Information, Pierre Zakrzewski, has been killed in Ukraine exterior Kyiv, the US community stated Tuesday March 15.

Zakrzewski was killed and his colleague Benjamin Corridor was wounded when their car was struck Monday by incoming hearth in Horenka, exterior the capital, Fox Information Media CEO Suzanne Scott stated in an announcement.

Corridor, a Briton who works because the community’s State Division correspondent, stays hospitalized in Ukraine, Scott stated.

“[Zakrzewski] was a struggle zone photographer who coated practically each worldwide story for Fox Information from Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria throughout his lengthy tenure with us,” Scott stated.

“His ardour and expertise as a journalist had been unmatched,” she added.

Zakrzewski, who was based mostly in London, had been working in Ukraine since February.

In keeping with an area media outlet, the Kyiv Impartial, and Reporters With out Borders, Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra Kuvshynova was killed in the identical incident.

On Sunday, a US journalist was shot useless and one other wounded in Irpin, a frontline suburb of Kyiv that has witnessed among the fiercest combating since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Video documentary maker Brent Renaud, 50, was working for Time Studios on a undertaking about international refugee points, the media outlet stated.

The Worldwide Federation of Journalists recognized the wounded journalist as American photographer Juan Arredondo.