Benjamin Hall.Photo: Benjamin Hall/Twitter
Benjamin Hallis on the mend.
The Fox News correspondent, 39, shared a health update on Twitter Thursday, weeks after he wasseriously injuredwhile reporting on thewar in Ukraine amid Russia’s invasionof the country.
Posting a photograph of himself lying on a hospital bed and wearing an eyepatch, Hall shared in a since-deleted tweet, “To sum it up, I’ve lost half a leg on one side and a foot on the other. One hand is being put together, one eye is no longer working, and my hearing is pretty blown.”
“But all in all,” he added, “I feel pretty damn lucky to be here – and it is the people who got me here who are amazing!”
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Hall wasinjuredlast month while covering Russia’s war in Ukraine. Fox News' CEO, Suzanne Scott, said in a note to employees that Hall, a Washington, D.C.-based State Department correspondent, was hurt while reporting for the network.
Days later, Scott said in a memo that was shared with PEOPLE that Hall was receivingmedical attention for injuriessustained.
“Ben was transferred from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany to Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC), located at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas,” she said at the time.
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Also on Thursday, Hall paid tribute to two colleagues who were killed in the Russian attack in another since-deleted message on Twitter.
“It’s been over three weeks since the attack in Ukraine and I wanted to start sharing it all,” Hall wrote. “But first I need to pay tribute to my colleagues Pierre [Zakrzewski] and Sasha [Kuvshynova] who didn’t make it that day.”
“Pierre and I traveled the world together, working was his joy and his joy was infectious. RIP,” Hall added in his tribute tweet.
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Russia’sattack on Ukrainecontinues after their forces launched a large-scale invasion on Feb. 24 — the first major land conflict in Europe in decades.
With NATO forces massing in the region around Ukraine, various countries have also pledged aid or military support to the resistance. Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyycalled for peace talks — so far unsuccessful — while urging his country to fight back.
Putin, 69, insists Ukraine has historic ties to Russia and he is acting in the best security interests of his country. Zelenskyy, 44, vowed not to bend. “Nobody is going to break us, we’re strong, we’re Ukrainians,“he told the European Unionin a speech in the early days of the fighting, adding, “Life will win over death. And light will win over darkness.”
source: people.com
