WATCH: Journalist Benjamin Hall, injured in Ukraine, urges others to keep telling ‘stories from war’
Julia Johnson
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Fox News’s State Department correspondent, Benjamin Hall, who lost half a leg, a foot, and the use of one eye after being injured while covering the war in Ukraine, encouraged journalists to keep telling stories from war.
“Despite the attack, despite what happened to us, I think it is essential that people continue telling the news, telling the stories from war. I think that’s the only way we truly get to understand the atrocities, the disasters, and the horror that’s happening out there,” he said Thursday while virtually accepting his 2022 Foreign Press Award from the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents.
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Hall sustained his injuries toward the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in March. His colleagues Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and journalist Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova, who was serving as a consultant for Fox News, died in the incident.
“I do think that this is not just an award for myself. It is an award for Pierre and for Sasha, who both died during that attack, and also for every other war correspondent who has been injured or killed covering conflicts,” Hall explained.
“There is good, and there is more good than there is evil. And we have to continue trying to fight to get that news out as well. People are knocked down. I myself was knocked down. But I know for certain now that you can pick yourself up again, and you can try even harder to do what is so important, to keep telling the truth, to keep telling the stories and encouraging everyone else to do the same,” he continued.
The one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which occurred Feb. 24, is fast approaching.
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Recently, the Washington Examiner spoke to former Gov. George Pataki (R-NY) while he was in Ukraine providing humanitarian aid. “This is simply a fight between freedom and democracy or autocracy and thuggery,” he said.
“This is our fight, and we have to stand with Ukraine and help them to win this war because the world is looking,” he added.