The digital camera operator who accompanied injured Fox Information correspondent Benjamin Corridor in Ukraine was killed by the incoming fireplace that struck their car Monday.
Fox Information Media Chief Government Suzanne Scott instructed workers in a memo Tuesday that Pierre Zakrzewski died from accidents sustained whereas reporting with Corridor in Horenka, outdoors Kyiv. Corridor stays hospitalized in Ukraine, based on a Fox Information consultant.
Scott later introduced that Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova, 24, a guide working with Corridor and Zakrzewski, additionally died within the incident. Kuvshynova helped Fox Information crews navigate Kiev and surrounding areas.
Zakrzewski and Kuvshynova are the newest U.S. journalists to die whereas masking Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Filmmaker Brent Renaud, 50, was killed Sunday after Russian forces opened fireplace on his car in Ukraine.
Zakrzewski, 55, had an extended tenure with Fox Information, the place he lined each main worldwide story in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. Primarily based in London, he had been working with Corridor in Ukraine since late February.
“His skills have been huge and there wasn’t a job that he didn’t leap in to assist with within the discipline — from photographer to engineer to editor to producer — and he did all of it beneath immense strain with great talent,” Scott wrote. “He was wildly well-liked — everybody within the media trade who has lined a overseas story knew and revered Pierre.”
Scott’s memo stated Zakrzewski performed a key position in getting the community’s Afghan freelance associates and their households out of Afghanistan after the U.S. army withdrawal final yr.
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