A Fox Information cameraman and a Ukrainian journalist touring with him had been killed on Monday in Ukraine when their car got here beneath fireplace exterior Kyiv, in line with the community and Ukrainian authorities.
The cameraman, Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, and the Ukrainian journalist, Oleksandra Kuvshynova, 24, had been touring in the identical car because the Fox Information correspondent Benjamin Corridor, who was additionally injured within the assault within the city of Horenka. Mr. Corridor remained hospitalized in Ukraine; Fox Information has not shared extra particulars about his situation.
Mr. Zakrzewski was a veteran reporter at Fox Information who reported from many conflict zones. He had been reporting for the community in Ukraine since February. Ms. Kuvshynova was an area journalist working with the Fox Information reporting workforce.
Suzanne Scott, the chief govt of Fox Information Media, wrote in a memo to the community’s employees that it was “a heartbreaking day.”
“Pierre was a conflict zone photographer who coated practically each worldwide story for Fox Information from Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria throughout his lengthy tenure with us,” Ms. Scott wrote.
“His abilities had been huge, and there wasn’t a task that he didn’t soar in to assist with within the area — from photographer to engineer to editor to producer — and he did all of it beneath immense stress with super talent. He was profoundly dedicated to telling the story, and his bravery, professionalism and work ethic had been famend amongst journalists at each media outlet.”
Ms. Kuvshynova had labored for a number of weeks alongside Fox Information’s crew in Ukraine. International correspondents typically depend on native journalists for quite a lot of important roles, corresponding to navigating an unfamiliar nation and translating throughout interviews.
Fox Information producers and correspondents described her as witty, courageous and hardworking, with an curiosity in images, music and the humanities. “Her dream was to attach individuals around the globe and inform their tales, and he or she fulfilled that by way of her journalism,” Ms. Scott wrote in a memo.
The director normal of the U.N. Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group, Audrey Azoulay, on Tuesday condemned the assault that led to the journalists’ deaths. “Journalists have a important function in offering data throughout a battle, and will by no means be focused,” she wrote. “I name for the respect of worldwide humanitarian requirements, to make sure that journalists and media staff are protected.”
Micheal Martin, the prime minister of Eire, the place Mr. Zakrzewski was a citizen, additionally commented on the deaths. “We condemn this indiscriminate and immoral conflict by Russia on Ukraine,” he wrote on Twitter.
On Sunday, the American filmmaker and journalist Brent Renaud, 50, was shot and killed whereas reporting in a suburb of Kyiv.
Mr. Zakrzewski, who was based mostly in London, had assisted Fox Information in its efforts final yr to extract its Afghan employees members from Afghanistan after the Taliban took management of the nation.
“Pierre was a relentless in all of our worldwide protection,” Jay Wallace, the president of Fox Information, wrote within the memo. “I, like numerous others, all the time felt an additional sense of reassurance when arriving on the scene and seeing him with digital camera in hand. The legacy of his constructive spirit, boundless power and eye for the story will keep it up.”
Trey Yingst, one other Fox Information international correspondent who’s reporting from Ukraine, posted a photograph on Twitter of himself and Mr. Zakrzewski.
