In Ukraine, female war reporters build on legacy of pioneers

Friling (centre) with Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan (left) and senior field producer Ibrahim Hazboun, has been on assignment covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: Fox News via AP

Clarissa Ward interrupted her live TV report on Ukrainian refugees to help a distraught older man, then a woman, down a steep and explosion-mangled path, gently urging them on in their language.

A day later, Lynsey Addario, a photographer for The New York Times, captured a grim image of a Russian mortar attack’s immediate outcome: the bodies of a mother and her two children crumpled on a road, amid their suitcase, backpacks and a pet carrier.