Fox News Correspondent Lost Limbs, Sight in One Eye in Ukraine Attack

• The reporter Benjamin Hall reported he felt “fairly damn blessed” immediately after becoming seriously hurt in Ukraine.
• He tweeted Thursday that he lost limbs and his sight in just one eye, with his listening to “really blown.”
• He also paid tribute to Pierre Zakrzewski and Oleksandra Kuvshynova, who ended up killed in the attack.

The Fox Information correspondent Benjamin Corridor said in a now-deleted tweet that he felt “fairly damn fortunate” irrespective of getting rid of limbs and sight in just one eye when reporting on the war in Ukraine.

“To sum it up, I have lost half a leg on one particular side and a foot on the other. Just one hand is remaining set with each other, just one eye is no longer performing, and my listening to is rather blown… but all in all I come to feel really damn blessed to be right here — and it is the people who received me listed here who are amazing!” he tweeted Thursday evening together with a photo of himself sporting an eyepatch and lying on a clinic bed.

Hall’s tweet, which was afterwards removed, was his very first community update considering the fact that he was severely injured in Ukraine very last thirty day period.

The British journalist was wounded exterior the Ukrainian money, Kyiv, on March 14 when his vehicle “was struck by incoming fireplace,” a statement from Fox Information CEO Suzanne Scott mentioned. He was later on identified to have been reporting with two colleagues — the digicam operator Pierre Zakrzewski and the Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra Kuvshynova — at the time.

Zakrzewski and Kuvshynova had been killed in the attack.

Corridor, who was transported out of Ukraine shortly right after the incident, paid tribute to them in a different tweet Thursday, which was also eliminated.

“Its been over 3 months because the attack in Ukraine and I required to commence sharing it all. But initial I require to spend tribute to my colleagues Pierre and Sasha who didnt make it that working day,” he wrote. “Pierre and I traveled the environment together, performing was his pleasure and his pleasure was infectious. RIP.”

Corridor was Fox News’ Point out Division correspondent in advance of touring to Ukraine to cover the Russian invasion.

Last month, he pushed again on the air towards the “5” cohost Greg Gutfeld’s promises that the media was trying to evoke an psychological reaction to the war in Ukraine.

“This is not the media striving to drum up some psychological response. This is totally what’s occurring,” Hall advised the Fox Information host Jeanine Pirro on March 8.

The metropolitan areas “are remaining absolutely flattened,” he had mentioned. “From all corners of this nation, people today are fleeing for security.”

Hall did not quickly reply to a request for comment.