White House press secretary Jen Psaki expressed concern for Hall’s well-being at a press conference Monday, telling a Fox News reporter that “our thoughts, the president’s thoughts , our administration’s thoughts are with him, his family and all of you at Fox News. ”
In his statement, Scott said there were few details available about what happened to Hall. “Our teams on the ground are working to gather additional information as the situation rapidly evolves,” she said.
Hall’s injury comes days after an American journalist was killed in Ukraine. Brent Renaud was shot and killed on Sunday while reporting in Irpin, a town outside kyiv, on a project focusing on the global refugee crisis for Time magazine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted a letter on Twitter on Monday expressing his condolences to Renaud’s family. “The Ukrainian people, who are fighting against the Russian regime to defend their homeland and democracy in the world, mourn with you,” he wrote.
Earlier in the conflict, Sky News journalists were shot dead as they tried to report from Bucha, a Kyiv suburb. Two crew members were hit, but all five survived and were evacuated. Ukrainian authorities later told them that they had been attacked by a “saboteur Russian reconnaissance squad”.
On March 1, a Ukrainian cameraman was one of five people killed when Russian forces fired on kyiv’s television tower.
In terms of specific actions the Biden administration would take in response to an attack on an American journalist, Psaki said President Biden had led “the world to put consequences in place” in response to Russia’s “brutal actions.” which certainly impacted the Ukrainian people and now certainly impacted some Americans.
“But in terms of next steps or what the next consequence would be, I don’t have anything to preview for you right now,” she added.
