The family of Ukrainian journalist Alexandra Kuvshinova, who died in March 2022 as a result of Russian artillery shelling, has filed a lawsuit against Fox News.
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The lawsuit accuses the broadcaster of negligence for allegedly sending journalists into an active war zone despite numerous warnings from local officials and a security consultant who advised them not to do so, Ukrinform reported March 16.
The parents of 24-year-old Alexandra Kuvshinova, who died in March 2022, filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the State of New York along with Shane Thomson, a security adviser to SEPAR, a British security agency that was working under contract with Fox News at the time.
The father of the deceased journalist, Alexander, believes that his daughter was unreasonably endangered.
In addition to Kuvshinova, several more people died on March 14, 2022, including Fox News cameraman with many years of experience Pierre Zakrzewski.
Pierre has worked the camera in war zones and covered nearly every international news story for Fox News from Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria during his long tenure with us,” Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said in a March 2022 statement.
Zakrevsky and Kuvshinova died as a result of artillery shelling by the Russian occupiers in Gorenka near Kiev.
Before this, another FoxNews journalist, Benjamin Hall, was wounded.
In addition, in the first months of Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine, the Russian military killed journalist Brent Reno, who worked for the American publication Time, in Irpen. His colleague, New York Times photojournalist Juan Arredondo, was wounded. Renaud worked on a TIME Studios project about the global refugee crisis.
Swiss photojournalist Guillaume Briquet was attacked by Russian soldiers near the village of Vodyano-Lorino, Nikolaev region. They shot him four times, and then took his money, three phones, a laptop, a video camera and a memory card with photographs taken. After the shelling, he says, his leadership asked to immediately return to Switzerland, but refused.
Czech Voxpot reporters came under fire along with Ukrainian media workers in the town of Makarov near Kyiv. AK-74 bullet holes were found on the car door.
Russian troops fired at foreign journalists near the village of Stoyanka in the Kyiv region. It is noted that the media workers immediately jumped out of the car and disappeared into a nearby shelter, from where they were evacuated by employees of the Buchansky district police department.
In the area of the village of Zelenovka (a suburb of Kherson), on February 26, Shakirov Dilerbek, a civilian journalist of the news weekly “Around You,” was shot from a car with an automatic weapon.
Radio Liberty correspondent Marjan Kushnir was injured as a result of rocket attacks near Kyiv. Military doctors and Baryshevka doctors provided medical assistance to the correspondent.
Russian soldiers fired at and robbed the car in which Public Journalist Victoria Roshchina was located. According to Victoria, she and the driver of the car came across a column of Russian tanks in the Zaporozhye region.
Source: Racurs
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