Tributes paid at funeral to ‘inspirational’ Irish journalist killed in Ukraine

Pierre Zakrzewski and his colleague Oleksandra Kuvshynova died in gunfire outside Kyiv earlier this month

An Irish journalist killed alongside a Ukrainian colleague when their Fox News team came under fire near Kyiv paid a terrible price" for his love of truth telling", the congregation at his funeral mass has heard.

Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, a cameraman and Oleksandra Sasha" Kuvshynova, 24, died in gunfire earlier this month in Horenka, on the north-west outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, along with the British correspondent Benjamin Hall, who was injured in the attack.