Longtime Fox News photojournalist and editor Pierre Zakrzewski, was killed while reporting in Ukraine, the network said on Tuesday.
Zakrzewski had been reporting from Ukraine since February and was with Fox News Ukraine correspondent Benjamin Hall “when their vehicle was struck by incoming fire,” the network said in a statement.
“It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we share the news this morning regarding our beloved cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski,” Fox News chief executive Suzanne Scott wrote to employees Tuesday morning. “Pierre was killed in Horenka, outside of Kyiv, Ukraine.”
“Pierre was a war zone photographer who covered nearly every international story for FOX News from Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria during his long tenure with us,” the network said. “His passion and talent as a journalist were unmatched.”
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The news of Zakrzewski’s death comes days after Brent Renaud, an award-winning American journalist, was killed in the Ukrainian town of Irpin.
Ukrainian authorities said that Russian forces shot Renaud and another journalist that day, adding that “the occupants cynically kill even journalists of international media, who’ve been trying to tell the truth about atrocities of Russian military in Ukraine.”
Before the attack that killed Zakrzewski and injured Hall, Hall pushed back against Fox News personality Greg Gutfeld for saying the media is trying to rouse up an “emotional response” with its coverage of Ukraine.
“Speaking as someone on the ground, I want to say that this is not the media trying to drum up some emotional response,” Hall told Gutfield. “This is absolutely what’s happening.”
