© Reuters. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meets with Government Chair and Chief Government Officer of Fox Company Lachlan Murdoch, amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on this handout image launched November 20, 2023. Ukrainian Presidentia
KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met Fox Corp CEO Lachlan Murdoch within the Ukrainian capital in what Kyiv stated on Monday was a “very important signal” of help at a time when international media consideration has shifted from the battle in Ukraine.
Media titan Rupert Murdoch’s eldest son is a number one determine in media with a U.S. Republican-leaning viewers. His go to comes as concern in Ukraine mounts over the way forward for very important American navy and financial assist with the battle with Russia exhibiting no finish in sight.
A U.S. presidential election subsequent November might deliver the return of Republican Donald Trump, who has been sharply essential of help for Ukraine. There’s rising division over assist for Kyiv within the U.S. Congress.
“The Head of State (Zelenskiy) thanked Lachlan Murdoch for his visit and emphasized that it is a very important signal of support at the time when the world’s attention is blurred by other events,” the president’s workplace wrote on its web site.
His comment seemed to be a reference to Israel’s battle in Gaza which has dominated headlines for greater than a month and considerably diverted international media consideration from the battle in Ukraine, which is nearing the 21-month mark this week.
Zelenskiy stated it was very important to maintain the world’s consideration targeted on the battle in Ukraine.
“For us, for our warriors, this is not a movie. These are our lives. This is daily hard work. And it will not be over as quickly as we would like, but we have no right to give up and we will not,” he was quoted as saying by his workplace.
Zelenskiy stated Fox Information journalist Benjamin Corridor, who was badly wounded protecting the battle in Ukraine final 12 months, and The Solar journalist Jerome Starkey had been additionally invited to the assembly with Murdoch.
Corridor was a part of a bunch of Fox Information journalists who got here beneath Russian hearth in spring 2022. Cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian fixer Oleksandra Kuvshynova had been killed.
The Ukrainian assertion stated Zelenskiy awarded the Order of Advantage to Corridor who was proven standing on a prosthetic limb shaking Zelenskiy’s hand.
Lachlan Murdoch was named the only chairman of Information Corp (NASDAQ:) and can proceed because the chair and chief govt of Fox Corp, the businesses stated in September, settling for now the problem of succession in one of many world’s strongest media empires.
