Fox News's Ukraine Journalist Shares His Horrific Injuries Online

Written By BlabberBuzz | Sunday, 10 April 2022 10:45 PM
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Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall has announced the horrifying extent of his injuries after being hit by a blast in Kyiv while reporting on the Russian attack on Ukraine.

In his first update since being injured, the British father-of-three said he had “lost half a leg and foot on the other side” and that “one hand’s being put together” and “one eye is not working.”

Though despite his life-changing injuries, the married 39-year-old from London announced he still felt “pretty damn lucky” to be alive.

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Hall was reporting outside of Kyiv when the vehicle he was traveling in was hit by a bomb blast, killing his 55-year-old veteran cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and their producer Oleksandra “Sasha” Kurshynova, 24.

On Thursday, he tweeted a picture of himself sitting as he recovers in a hospital bed, along with a post clarifying the nature of his wounds.

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“To sum it up, I’ve lost half a leg on one side and a foot on the other,” Hall started.

“One hand is being put together, one eye is no longer working, and my hearing is pretty blown… but all in all I feel pretty damn lucky to be here - and it is the people who got me here who are amazing!” Hall wrote.

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Hall, 39, was rushed to a hospital in Ukraine with serious injuries after the attack by Russian forces. However, he evacuated from the nation days after being involved in the attack and taken to a hospital in Texas, where he underwent several surgeries on his injuries.

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Hall had been with Zakrzewski and Kuvshinova as they covered the Russian attack and were on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital in Horenka.

The trio were all traveling in the same vehicle when the attack occurred, and their vehicle was struck by incoming fire.

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Hall has been married to his wife, Alicia Meller, an Australian fashion businesswoman, for almost seven years and they share three young daughters who regularly appear on their father’s Instagram. The family lives in Washington D.C.

Meller works for an Australian fashion and shoe brand, Senso, which her parents founded in 1979.

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She joined the company in 2010 along with her two sisters, Imogen and Skye, and is in charge of international development.

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Hall, in the meantime, has worked for the New York-based network since 2015. Hall, a dual citizen of Britain and the U.S., often covers the U.S. State Department for the network.

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The journalist has further worked for the BBC, ITN, and Channel 4 and written for The Times, The Sunday Times, The New York Times, and Agence France Presse.

Hall attended Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire before studying at Duke University in North Carolina, Richmond University in London, and University of the Arts London.

A dual citizen of both Britain and the U.S., he wrote a book in 2015 about the history of the Islamic State called “Inside ISIS: The Brutal Rise of a Terrorist Army.”

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