Fox News journalist killed in Ukraine

Tragedy struck a Fox News crew Monday outside Kyiv. Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, was filming with his team in Horenka when Russian fire struck their vehicle. Fox CEO Suzanne Scott announced Tuesday that Zakrzewski and Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra Kuvshinova, 24, died in the conflict. Fellow reporter Benjamin Hall is hospitalized with injuries. Zakrzewski was a London-based reporter who previously covered wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. Kuvshinova  helped news crews gather information, navigate Kyiv, and speak with sources.

Is the media safe? Zakrzewski is the second foreign journalist to die in the war zone this week. Freelance documentary filmmaker Brent Renaud was also killed when Russian troops fired on his car Sunday as it crossed a bridge near Kyiv. In Russia, state media are not allowed to call the invasion a war, and police have made several arrests for anti-war speech. Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor a Russian TV station, waved a poster in the studio during the Monday night news to protest the war. She said she spent 14 hours in police interrogation without legal counsel. She was found guilty of an administrative offense for a previously recorded anti-war video urging Russians to participate in protests.

Dig deeper: Read Tennyson Bush’s report in World Tour about anti-war dissidents within the Russian Orthodox Church.