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Fox News correspondent injured near Kyiv

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Benjamin Hall, a British journalist working for Fox News, was seriously injured near Kyiv after being hit in the legs by shrapnel while covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He was hospitalized was treated in intensive care in hospital. Fox News Media chief executive Suzanne Scott told staff in a memo that bosses have a ‘minimal level of details’ and teams on the ground were working to find out more. Irina Venediktova, Ukraine’s prosecutor general, said in a Facebook post that a British journalist had received shrapnel wounds to both legs and was in intensive care. Mr Hall is a Washington-based correspondent and an experienced foreign reporter who has previously worked in the likes of Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Gaza. White House press secretary Jen Psaki told another Fox News reporter at a press conference in Washington DC that ‘our thoughts, the president’s thoughts, our administration’s thoughts are with him, his family and all of you at Fox News.’ According to reports published at a later stage, Russian armed forces were identified as likely being responsible for the incident in which Hall was wounded.

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