08/04/2022 17:05

Commissioner: Murders and shelling of journalists are a gross violation of international conventions and declarations on the protection of war victims

The price of the truth about the crimes of the russian terrorist army - a Fox News journalist who came under fire from the occupiers in Kyiv region, lost part of his leg and went blind in one eye.

On March 16, a shell hit a car in the village of Gorenka, Kyiv Oblast, as a result of artillery shelling by racist forces.  The injuries killed the operator of the American TV channel "Fox News", an Irish citizen Pierre Zakzewski, and fatally injured a journalist - a citizen of Ukraine Oleksandra Kuvshinova.

A British journalist, Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall was injured and taken to the capital's medical facility.

As a result of the attack, the journalist lost half a leg on one side and a foot on the other.  One eye can no longer see, hearing has deteriorated.

Benjamin believes that he is still very lucky and expresses gratitude to the Ukrainians who pulled him out and saved him.

The killings and shelling of journalists are a gross violation of the Hague Conventions and Declaration, the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Victims of War and its Additional Protocols, and the Convention on the Laws and Customs of Land Warfare, which provide security guarantees for journalists.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during Russia's Military Invasion of Ukraine and the expert mission set up by the OSCE participating States under the Moscow Mechanism to take into account these war crimes and crimes against humanity and human rights in Ukraine.