A Fox News camera operator has died from injuries sustained in Ukraine

The digicam operator who accompanied injured Fox Information correspondent Benjamin Corridor in Ukraine was killed by the incoming hearth that struck their car Monday.

Fox Information Media Chief Govt Suzanne Scott instructed employees in a memo Tuesday that Pierre Zakrzewski died from accidents sustained whereas reporting with Corridor in Horenka, exterior Kyiv. Corridor stays hospitalized in Ukraine, in accordance with a Fox Information consultant.

Scott later introduced that Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova, 24, a advisor 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 most recent U.S. journalists to die whereas protecting Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Filmmaker Brent Renaud, 50, was killed Sunday after Russian forces opened hearth 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. Based mostly in London, he had been working with Corridor in Ukraine since late February.

“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 underneath immense stress with super ability,” Scott wrote. “He was wildly widespread — everybody within the media trade who has lined a overseas story knew and revered Pierre.”

Scott’s memo mentioned Zakrzewski performed a key position in getting the community’s Afghan freelance associates and their households out of Afghanistan after the U.S. navy withdrawal final 12 months.