Fox News Benjamin Hall Returns to Ukraine to Meet President Zelensky — With Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch

Fox News sent a newsworthy envoy to Kyiv, Ukraine, to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which included newly in charge Fox Corporation Executive Chairman and CEO Lachlan Murdoch and correspondent Benjamin Hall.

Zelenskyy invited Murdoch to visit the Ukrainian capital, who in turn invited Hall to join him. It was the first time Hall had returned to Ukraine since he almost lost his life in an IED attack while covering the war roughly 18 months ago.

While there, Hall met with the servicemen who assisted in his evacuation last year following the near-fatal attack that took the lives of Fox News photojournalist Pierre Zakrewski and Ukrainian producer Oleksandra Kuvshynova. According to Fox News, Zelenskyy awarded Hall with the Order of Merit, III class, for his “outstanding personal contribution to strengthening interstate cooperation, support for Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity.”

The continued support of Ukrainian efforts to push back on the Russian invasion led by Vladimir Putin has become a hotly contested issue, especially within the Republican party. There are numerous loud voices among Fox News opinion shows who believe support for Ukraine should abate, though also loud voices still very much in support.

It’s in this context that makes the meeting between Murdoch and Zelenskyy so fascinating.

It is not clear what was discussed between the Fox Chair and the president of Ukraine, but it’s hard to imagine US support of military efforts in the former Soviet Republic and the role that American media play in that dynamic most certainly came up.

Hall interviewed Zelenksyy, the segment of which is scheduled to air Tuesday evening on Special Report.