“It has been more than three weeks since the attack in Ukraine and I wanted to start sharing it all,” Hall wrote on Twitter. “But first I have to pay tribute to my colleagues Pierre and Sasha who did not make it that day. Pierre and I traveled the world together, work was his joy and his joy was contagious. RIP.”
Hall also posted a photo of himself on a stretcher, writing: “To sum it up, I lost half a leg on one side and a leg on the other. One arm is joined, one eye is no longer working. And my hearing it ‘s quite breathtaking. ”
To summarize, I have lost half a leg on one side and one leg on the other. One hand is concentrated, one eye is no longer working, and my hearing is quite unbearable; but overall I feel very lucky to be here – and the people who brought me here are amazing! pic.twitter.com/HNjO6PbdGf
– Benjamin Hall (@BenjaminHallFNC) April 8, 2022
However, Hall said he felt “very lucky to be here”.
Hall was writing near Kyiv with Zakrzewski and Kovsinova when their vehicle “caught fire” on March 14, Fox News reported at the time. Hall survived the attack and was evacuated from Ukraine days later, but Zakrzewski and Kovsinova were killed.
Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott said at the time that Zakrzewski had “covered almost every international Fox News story from Iraq to Afghanistan and Syria during his long tenure with us”, adding that “passion and his talent as a journalist was unparalleled. “
Scott said the 24-year-old Kuvshynova was “incredibly talented” and had spent weeks helping the network crews navigate Kyiv, gathering information and communicating with sources, “working around the clock to make sure people knew what was going on in her country. . ”
This image released by the Fox News Channel shows cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski on a mission with his colleagues, Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan and senior producer Yonat Friling from Jerusalem, far right, in Kyiv. Pierre Zakrzewski / AP
Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, said Kuvshynova and Zakrzewski had been killed by “artillery fire from Russian-fascist forces”, but the network did not attribute their deaths to a specific nation.
The news came just a day after the shooting and death of another American journalist, Brent Renaud, in Ukraine. The head of Kiev’s regional police force said Reno was killed and another journalist was wounded by Russian forces in the city of Irpin outside the Kiev capital as they traveled to film refugees.
Before Hall was injured, he had recently made headlines for scolding Greg Gatfield, co-host of the Fox News political talk show “The Five,” after saying on-air that the report from Ukraine “is very similar to other stories we have. go through the digital age in which an image is pulled and then played over and over and over again to create some kind of emotional response from you, because that’s profitable for news companies. “
“It’s not the media trying to get an emotional response,” Hall said. “This is exactly what is happening.”
“It is a complete disaster,” he added. “And the people who are caught in the middle are the ones who really suffer.”
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