The news producer Oleksandra Kuvshynova always surprised her parents with her quiet independence.
The Euromaidan revolution which ousted the government and changed Ukraine forever left her missing from home in February. Her father told Insider that it almost got her killed.
He told Insider that his daughter was at the media center, helping with her friend to translate texts.
The Trade Union Hall in central Kyiv burned to the ground after she got home.
After Russia invaded Ukraine eight years ago, she was hired by Fox News as a field producer.
On March 14, 2022, Benjamin Hall and Pierre Zarkrzewski were with a Fox reporter and cameraman as they drove out of Kyiv. She was with Fox for around two months.
According to a Telegram post by an adviser in the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, they were going to Irpin, a town that had come under attack recently.
They were not accompanied by security personnel the whole way, but dropped off at an earlier stage, according to Fox. The security team was aware of their location at all times.
An explosion hit their car in a village that had been attacked by Russia. Hall, who was badly hurt, lost one leg, his other foot and sight in one eye. It's not publicly known what more is.
In the weeks after her death, Insider spoke with her father, several of her friends, and Fox News to find out more about what happened that day, and what kind of person she was.
The military takes journalists with them to cover events, and that is where Sviatoslav Yurash believes the Fox News trip was.
The security of Fox News' staff in Ukraine made it impossible to give further details of the trip. Military officials and authorities in the country refused to comment.
The video of the aftermath of the attack was taken by the soldiers who found and rescued Hall, according to Yurash.
He said they were struck around the city limits.
The car is completely destroyed in the video.
The car was hit by a mortar shell or shelling from the Russian forces, according to the Ukrainian official.
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Journalists are not legitimate military targets. Intentional killing of civilians is a war crime.
The Fox team took a reporting trip after the attack.
I don't understand how a decision was taken for Fox News to go where there was a live threat.
It was so frightening there. Why did they end up there?
They didn't know what to do when they were evacuated. They took a long time to find each other. How could the managers be so irresponsible and send people who weren't prepared to go to the military zone?
The news is hard to take in, he said.
A Fox News spokesman wouldn't say anything about the story the team was pursuing.
The decision to go in the direction of Horenka was not wise, according to Alfred Hackensberger, a reporter for Die Welt who was also based in Kyiv. The parent company of Die Welt is Axel Springer.
He said that there was no journalistic reason to go there.
The New York Times reported from the area the day before. There were journalists killed and injured in Ukraine before then.
A Sky News producer narrowly escaped an ambush near Kyiv. She told Insider that a previously safe area can become dangerous.
She said that she and her colleagues were attacked after turning back from their destination. She said she had no knowledge of the attack that killed the girl, and that she wasn't in a position to judge the decisions made.
She noted that risk-taking is celebrated up to the point that someone is hurt.
Sometimes, when you push a story too far and you get a great story, you arebrave, and you are amazing.
You are stupid if you push a bit too far and you don't get a story. It is a no-win situation.
The discussion of how Western outlets work with local reporters was revived by the attack.
The industry refers to him as a Fixer, people who can provide local knowledge, translation, practical help, and arrange access that would otherwise be unavailable to foreign reporters suddenly arriving in a war zone.
The Washington Post reported that fixers for Western media rarely get equal credit.
Fox first announced critical injuries to Hall, then the death of Zakrzewski, and only hours later, the death of Sasha.
Several journalists accused Fox of giving its US-based employees more importance than they deserved.
Fox News held back out of respect for her family, according to a correspondent in Ukraine.
—Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) March 16, 2022
The family was in a state of disbelief, according to Yurash.
Van Heerden said that fixers are often established and kind of amazing journalists.
The international reporters are doing all this while their own lives are being turned upside down.
International reporters are usually allowed to go home. She said that this is not a story that they can leave.
The attack robbed the world of a woman who dreamed of more than reporting the destruction of her homeland.
She loved poetry, cinema, photography, and electronic music, which she shared by organizing the KRAI festival in Kyiv.
Like other creatives, she was drawn to the neighborhood of Podil, where she shared drinks and jokes with her friend.
She was destined to push boundaries in documentary filmmaking according to one of her best friends. He told Insider that the chance to work with Fox was a big break towards that.
He said that she was more than just someone who did a few projects and was creative and all that, but she had a real ability to look further.
Fox News senior field producer Yonat Frilin said in a tribute published by the network that her journalistic instincts were indispensable to the network's reporting on the war.
Frilin said she was funny and creative with a dark sense of humor.
Novak said that the sort of wisdom that someone had lived several lifetimes was beneath that humor.
He said that she felt the pain of the world. She was able to understand it.
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—Sviatoslav Yurash (@SviatoslavUA) March 16, 2022
She never really wanted to be a leader, but people made her one, said her father.
When the war broke out, he started a volunteer initiative which brought food and medical supplies to vulnerable people. The work helped many people, according to an architect who continues to co- organize the project.
Novak said that she did not allow herself to rest for two to three days in a row.
A day or so before the war broke out, the two of them were drinking wine. She anticipated that Russia would attack there first.
She stayed in Kyiv to highlight the war.
Friends tried to stop her from doing that work. Several people told Insider that she understood the risks.
He said that she gave her life because he was doing what he truly liked.
In the days before she was killed, a video was sent to some of her friends discussing the risks she was taking.
The first time I was in those places, I was scared.
Today I went and looked around. They are shooting everywhere, something is on fire, and I am like: Okay.
Maybe it is the nice weather. I no longer have fear, but I am already used to it. I have cold eyes and stare at it. It will be the same.
If it falls, it will be unpleasant and I might die. It is like that.
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