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CNN got here to assistance from its cable rival Fox News and helped monitor down the stays of two of the community’s journalists who had been shot and killed whereas overlaying the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in keeping with a report.
Clarissa Ward, CNN’s chief worldwide correspondent who has been reporting on the bottom in Ukraine since Russian forces invaded the nation greater than a month in the past, helped Trey Yingst of Fox News find the our bodies of cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and fixer Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova.
Ward and Yingst made frantic cellphone calls to Ukrainian officers from a Kyiv resort room searching for details about the whereabouts of Zakrzewski and Kuvshynova, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The two wartime correspondents referred to as native morgues and hospitals in hopes of getting affirmation as to the situation and whereabouts of the Fox News workers.
Ward and Yingst additionally supplied Ukrainian army and authorities officers with details about the lacking journalists, the Journal reported.
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Security personnel from Sky News and NBC additionally provided help to Fox News, in keeping with the report.
Zakrzewski and Kuvshynova had been killed in the identical March 14 assault outdoors Kyiv that injured one of many community’s high correspondents, Benjamin Hall.
Zakrzewski, 55, and Kuvshynova, 24, had been with Hall when their automobile got here underneath hearth in Horenka, a northwest suburb of Kyiv, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott stated in an announcement.
Hall — who was “extremely close” to Zakrzewski, in keeping with a colleague — was damage in the assault and hospitalized. He sustained extreme leg accidents brought on by shrapnel.
Last week, Fox News introduced that Hall was airlifted stateside and had undergone a number of surgical procedures at a army hospital in Texas.
“Yesterday Ben was transferred from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany to Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC), located at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas,” Scott advised staffers in an inner memo on Friday.
“BAMC is a premier military medical facility and Ben is receiving excellent care while he continues to recover from his serious injuries after multiple surgeries.”
In whole, 5 journalists — two Ukrainians and three foreigners — have died whereas overlaying the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in keeping with the worldwide NGO Reporters Without Borders.
Brent Renaud, a 51-year-old American documentary filmmaker who had labored with the New York Times on a number of events in the previous, was fatally shot in the neck whereas driving his automotive in Irpin, a city northwest of Kyiv, on March 13.
Juan Arredondo, a twin American-Colombian nationwide who was with Renaud in the automotive, was wounded in the assault.
Evgeny Sakun, a Ukrainian cameraman working for the native Kyiv Live TV channel, was the primary journalist to have died overlaying the battle.
He was killed when Russian missiles hit a Kyiv tv tower on March 1.
