Fox News cameraman killed near Ukrainian capital Kyiv, reporter injured

New York:

A Fox News cameraman, Pierre Jakrzewski, has been murdered outside Kyiv in Ukraine, the US network said on Tuesday.

Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said in a statement that Zakarjewski was killed and his colleague Benjamin Hall injured when his vehicle caught fire on Monday in Horenka outside the capital.

Hall, a Briton who works as the network’s State Department correspondent, remains hospitalized in Ukraine, Scott said.

“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,” Scott said. “His passion and talent as a journalist was unmatched.”

Zakrzewski, who lives in London, had been working in Ukraine since February.

On Sunday, an American journalist was shot dead and another wounded in Irpin, a border suburb of Kyiv that has seen some fierce fighting since Russia invaded Ukraine.

The media outlet said 50-year-old video documentary maker Brent Renaud was working for Time Studios on a project about global refugee issues.

The International Federation of Journalists has identified the injured journalist as American photographer Juan Arredondo.

A Ukrainian who was in the same car as the American was also injured, according to a doctor at the scene.

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