Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall has returned to live TV after being severely injured while reporting on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Hall - a foreign correspondent - was traveling in a vehicle with several other journalists in Horenka, Ukraine, when they came under attack from Russian forces, The New York Post detailed.
According to the outlet, two other journalists were killed during the attack in March 2022 - Fox News photojournalist Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, and Ukrainian fixer and journalist Oleksandra Kuvshynova, 24.
Hall, 40, fortunately survived the incident, however, he suffered multiple injuries - including losing one leg, one eye, and both feet.
The British journalist video-called into Fox & Friends from London earlier this week, marking the first time he's appeared on live TV since the traumatizing incident. "I've got one leg, I've got no feet, I see through one eye, got one workable hand. I was burned all over, and I feel stronger, I feel more confident than I ever have," he stated, per Fox News.
"I think that when you've gone through something like I've gone through, the highs, the lows, you have to have a target, you have to get something to fight for. And this is it, trying to get back, trying to speak to you, trying to be on air and trying to tell people the stories, so perhaps it can help them," Hall added.
The father-of-three credited Zakrzewski for saving his life, recalling: "The two of us laid there for about 40 minutes, and talked, he passed away. The journey to continue was about me being saved."
Fox reported that Hall was eventually saved and transported to a military medical facility in Texas, where he received life-saving surgeries. "I remember from the very day this happened, remembering and thinking that I will get back. I remember lying there when it happened in the middle of nowhere, very badly injured and thinking 'I'm going home no matter what, I will crawl if I have to.' And I thought that way throughout and that's what got me here. It's been a life-changing event."
In September 2022, six months after the devastating attack, Hall updated Fox News on his condition during a live TV segment. He also took the opportunity to remember Zakrzewski and Kuvshynova, saying (via The Wrap): "When I think back to Sasha [Kuvshynova], I think of someone who worked so hard, who went like we did to try to find the stories. And she did that each and every day that we worked with her.
"And when I think of Pierre [Zakrzewski], this is someone who I traveled the world with, who many people at Fox News traveled with. To the tunnels of ISIS, to the front lines in Turkey, to the funerals and the great victories around the world, I was there alongside Pierre, and he taught us one thing, one thing that everyone needs to remember – that you must love this job, that you must fight every day to do it in the best way you possibly can," he added.
Hall is set to release his upcoming memoir in March, titled Saved: A War Reporter's Mission To Make It Home.
