CNN helped Fox News find fatally shot journalists in Ukraine: report

CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward helped Fox Information reporter Trey Yingst attempt to find his colleagues from CNN's makeshift newsroom in a Kyiv resort suite, in accordance with the Wall Avenue Journal.
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CNN got here to the help of its cable rival Fox Information 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 accordance 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 Information 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 Avenue Journal reported.

The 2 wartime correspondents referred to as native morgues and hospitals in hopes of getting affirmation as to the situation and whereabouts of the Fox Information staff.

Ward and Yingst additionally offered Ukrainian army and authorities officers with details about the lacking journalists, the Journal reported.

Trey Yingst (second from left) obtained assist from rival networks in finding his Fox Information Channel colleagues who had been shot and killed — Pierre Zakrzewski (far left) and Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova (second from proper).

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Safety personnel from Sky Information and NBC additionally provided help to Fox Information, in accordance 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 Corridor.

Zakrzewski, 55, and Kuvshynova, 24, had been with Corridor when their car got here below fireplace in Horenka, a northwest suburb of Kyiv, Fox Information CEO Suzanne Scott mentioned in an announcement.

Corridor — who was “extraordinarily shut” to Zakrzewski, in accordance with a colleague — was damage within the assault and hospitalized. He sustained extreme leg accidents attributable to shrapnel.

Final week, Fox Information introduced that Corridor 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 Heart in Germany to Brooke Military Medical Heart (BAMC), situated at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas,” Scott instructed staffers in an inner memo on Friday.

Zakrzewski is considered one of 5 journalists who've died whereas overlaying the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Trey Yingst searched frantically for the journalists.

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“BAMC is a premier army medical facility and Ben is receiving glorious care whereas he continues to recuperate from his critical accidents after a number of surgical procedures.”

In whole, 5 journalists — two Ukrainians and three foreigners — have died whereas overlaying the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in accordance with the worldwide NGO Reporters With out Borders.

Brent Renaud, a 51-year-old American documentary filmmaker who had labored with the New York Instances on a number of events previously, was fatally shot within the neck whereas driving his automobile in Irpin, a city northwest of Kyiv, on March 13.

Juan Arredondo, a twin American-Colombian nationwide who was with Renaud within the automobile, was wounded within the assault.

Zakrzewski had beforehand labored with Fox in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.

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Evgeny Sakun, a Ukrainian cameraman working for the native Kyiv Reside TV channel, was the primary journalist to have died overlaying the struggle.

He was killed when Russian missiles hit a Kyiv tv tower on March 1.