‘They Brought Me Back’: Fox News Reporter Reveals What Saved Him After Bomb Blast In Ukraine
Benjamin Hall, Fox News’ foreign correspondent, shared his story with us in his first interview on air since the bomb blast outside Kyiv. UkraineHe nearly lost his life and killed two of his coworkers.
Hall joined hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, and Brian Kilmeade on Thursday’s broadcast of “Fox & Friends” to talk about his experience, his continuing recovery, and the nine words he’s credited with saving his life.
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[embedded content]Hall sustained severe injuries during the Russian attack that claimed the life of Fox News’s cameraman on March 14, 2022. Pierre Zakrzewski Ukrainian producer Oleksandra Kuvshynova. He ultimately lost both feet, part of one leg, the use of one hand, and the vision in one eye — but during Thursday’s interview, he revealed what had pushed him to survive, to make it home, and to get back to broadcasting.
Hall thanked everyone who had sent him kind words and prayers. He said that the key to his recovery was easy: “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.”
He detailed the first moments of the blast immediately after it had ended, and then he went on to detail everything else. “gone dark,” By reading an excerpt From his memoir: “Saved: A War Reporter’s Mission To Make It Home.”
If I had the slightest iota of consciousness, it was a distant sense of shock waves and the feeling that every part of my body — bones, organs, sinew, my soul — had been knocked out of me. I was all but dead but improbably, out of this crippling nothingness, a figure came through, and I heard a familiar voice, as real as anything I’d ever known. “Daddy, you’ve got to get out of the car.”
Hall said that in that moment, he saw his daughters — and he crawled out of the car. Another shell hit the car just as Hall was getting out.
“They brought me back, and I found the strength. I opened my eyes and managed to crawl out of the car. And then the third bomb hit the car itself. If it weren’t for them bringing me back, there is no way I would be here today,” He said.
Hall then revealed that the cameraman, Zakrzewski, had also gotten out of the car — and the two of them talked as they waited and hoped that help would arrive. “The two of us laid there for about 40 minutes, and talked, he passed away,” Hall said.
Hall explained how Hall’s explanations were made in the weeks, months, and days that followed. risky civilian operation that got him out of Ukraine — and credited the military hospitals at Landstuhl Air Force Base in Germany and Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, for rebuilding him in both body and mind.
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