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Pierre Zakrzewski, a longtime Fox Information photojournalist, was killed whereas reporting in Ukraine, the community mentioned on Tuesday.
“It’s with nice unhappiness and a heavy coronary heart that we share the information this morning concerning our beloved cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski,” Fox Information chief govt Suzanne Scott wrote to workers Tuesday morning. “Pierre was killed in Horenka, exterior of Kyiv, Ukraine.”
He had been reporting from Ukraine since February and was with correspondent Benjamin Corridor “when their car was struck by incoming fireplace,” Scott mentioned.
Zakrzewski was a veteran struggle photojournalist who had “lined almost each inside story for Fox Information from Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria,” Scott mentioned.
“His abilities have been huge and there wasn’t a task that he did not bounce in to assist with within the area — from photographer to engineer to editor to producer — and he did all of it beneath immense strain with super talent,” Scott mentioned. “He was profoundly dedicated to telling the story and his bravery, professionalism and work ethic have been famend amongst journalists at each media outlet.”
“He was wildly standard — everybody within the media business who has lined a international story knew and revered Pierre,” Scott added.
Scott mentioned it was a “heartbreaking day for Fox Information Media and for all journalists risking their lives to ship the information.”
In the meantime, Corridor stays within the hospital in Ukraine, she advised colleagues.
Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian Inside Minister, mentioned a Ukrainian journalist, Oleksandra Kuvshynova, was additionally killed within the incident.
Fox has not but confirmed that Kuvshynova was working with the Fox crew.
The information of Zakrzewski’s dying comes days after Brent Renaud, an award-winning American journalist, was killed within the Ukrainian city of Irpin.
Andriy Nebitov, the top of the Kyiv area police, mentioned that Russian forces shot Renaud, including that “the occupants cynically kill even journalists of worldwide media, who’ve been making an attempt to inform the reality about atrocities of Russian navy in Ukraine.”
One other journalist, Juan Arredondo, was additionally wounded in Ukraine on Sunday.
Press freedom teams have denounced the violence journalists are going through whereas overlaying the struggle. The Committee to Shield Journalists, after the dying of Renaud, referred to as on Russian forces to “cease all violence in opposition to journalists and different civilians without delay.”