Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall was injured in Ukraine on Monday while reporting outside Kiev and has been hospitalized, the network said.
The network said it had scant information about the nature of the journalist’s injuries. Mr Hall is a longtime war correspondent who has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and other countries. He joined Fox News in 2015 and became a State Department correspondent for the network last year.
“We have a minimal level of detail at this point, but Ben is in the hospital and our on-site teams are working to gather additional information as the situation quickly unfolds,” Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott wrote in a statement. a memo to employees.
“The safety of our entire team of journalists in Ukraine and the surrounding regions is our top priority and paramount. This is a grim reminder for all the journalists who risk their lives every day to bring the news out of a war zone.”
On Sunday, American filmmaker and journalist Brent Renaud was shot dead while reporting in a suburb of Kiev. Mr Renaud, 50, was killed in a suburb that had been the target of intense shelling by Russian troops.
