Fox News’ state department correspondent Benjamin Hall, who was reporting from Kyiv on Monday morning, received terrible news. He was reported to have been in an unmilitary zone and may have suffered damage to his legs.
A little before 2:00 p.m. Eastern, Fox News anchor John Roberts broke the news that “we hate to pass along to you, but it’s obviously what happens something in the middle of conflict.”
“A Fox News journalist has been injured while newsgathering outside of Kyiv. Very few details, but teams on the ground are working as hard as they can to try to gather more information,” he said. “A reminder, of course, this is in a war zone, that information changes very quickly and we are working as hard as possible to get the best information we that we possibly can and get all the details on what has happened.”
The horrific details were repeated an hour later. Roberts broke in and read the statement of the company that Hall was the journalist.
Just sent a memo to Fox News staff regarding the injuries that Benjamin Hall sustained today while covering Kyiv for Fox News. pic.twitter.com/JvFid5qBue
— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) March 14, 2022
The emotion in Roberts’ voice was obvious.
Following a commercial break, co-anchor Sandra Smith returned with Roberts and told viewers, “we’re all praying for Ben.” And Roberts noted “We don’t know the extent of his injuries yet, but we are all praying for him and for his family that he comes back to us.”
There does seem to be some early accounts of Hall condition and they’re not pretty.
According to a Facebook post Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Irina Venediktova (via the translation from Facebook), which included a picture of Hall’s press credentials, “The explosive fracture of two lower ends – a ‘russskomirnyj’ diagnosis, made by Ukrainian doctors to a British journalist.”
According to the Facebook translation, Halls may have been the victim of an explosion which caused damage to his legs.
“This man was not at a military facility, where according to Russian officials, they are constantly targeting. Not being at a military facility, he suffered serious injuries,” she added.
Hall wasn’t the first American journalist to become a victim in the conflict. Brent Renaud, an award-winning journalist for TIME Studios was also killed in the conflict.
“Kyiv police said Renaud died after Russian forces opened fire on his car in Irpin, which is just outside the capital of Kyiv,” Politico reported on the tragedy. “American journalist Juan Arredondo was traveling with Renaud when both were shot, the Associated Press reported. Arredondo was wounded in the lower back.”
Hall’s condition is a breaking story and NewsBusters will update when we get more information.
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