Fox News correspondent tweeted, then deleted, about losing limbs and sight in one eye in Ukraine attack: 'I feel pretty damn lucky to be here'

• The reporter Benjamin Hall said he felt "pretty damn lucky" after being severely injured in Ukraine.
• He tweeted Thursday that he lost limbs and his sight in one eye, with his hearing "pretty blown."

The Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall said in a now-deleted tweet that he felt "pretty damn lucky" despite losing limbs and sight in one eye while reporting on the war in Ukraine.

"To sum it up, I've lost half a leg on one side and a foot on the other. One hand is being put together, one eye is no longer working, and my hearing is pretty blown… but all in all I feel pretty damn lucky to be here — and it is the people who got me here who are amazing!" he tweeted Thursday evening alongside a picture of himself wearing an eyepatch and lying on a hospital bed.

Hall's tweet, which was later removed, was his first public update since he was seriously injured in Ukraine last month.

The British journalist was wounded outside the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on March 14 when his vehicle "was struck by incoming fire," a statement from Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott said. He was later found to have been reporting with two colleagues — the camera operator Pierre Zakrzewski and the Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra Kuvshynova — at the time.

Zakrzewski and Kuvshynova were killed in the attack.

Hall, who was transported out of Ukraine soon after the incident, paid tribute to them in a separate tweet Thursday, which was also removed.

"Its been over three weeks since the attack in Ukraine and I wanted to start sharing it all. But first I need to pay tribute to my colleagues Pierre and Sasha who didnt make it that day," he wrote. "Pierre and I traveled the world together, working was his joy and his joy was infectious. RIP."

Hall was Fox News' State Department correspondent before traveling to Ukraine to cover the Russian invasion.

Last month, he pushed back on the air against the "Five" cohost Greg Gutfeld's claims that the media was trying to evoke an emotional response to the war in Ukraine.

"This is not the media trying to drum up some emotional response. This is absolutely what's happening," Hall told the Fox News host Jeanine Pirro on March 8.

The cities "are being absolutely flattened," he had said. "From all corners of this country, people are fleeing for safety."

Hall did not immediately respond to a request for comment.