A bright, talented Ukrainian journalist signed up to help Fox News cover the war. Two months later she was dead.

• Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova died in Ukraine on March 14 at the age of 24.

• She and her Fox News colleagues were attacked while reporting in the suburbs of Kyiv, a combat zone.

• Kuvshynova’s father told Insider he did not understand why they took on such a dangerous trip.

The Ukrainian news producer Oleksandra Kuvshynova — Sasha to all who knew her — always surprised her parents with her quiet independence.

In February 2014, she disappeared from home in Kyiv as it was gripped by the Euromaidan revolution which ousted the government and changed Ukraine forever. It almost got her killed, her father, Andrey Kuvshinov told Insider.

“Twenty-four hours later, we found out that our daughter — who was still a schoolgirl at the time — was at the media center, helping with her friend to translate texts,” he told Insider.

The building, the Trade Union Hall in central Kyiv, burned to the ground a few hours after she got home, and 22 people died.

Eight years later, Russia invaded Ukraine and Sasha again found herself helping tell the world, this time as a field producer working with Fox News.

On March 14, 2022, Sasha drove out of Kyiv on an assignment with two Fox veterans: reporter Benjamin Hall and cameraman Pierre Zarkrzewski. She’d been contracted with Fox for around two months.

Their destination was Irpin, a town northwest of Kyiv that had come under attack in recent days, according to a Telegram post by Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser in the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

According to Fox, they were not accompanied by security personnel the whole way, but dropped off at an earlier stage. A spokesperson said the security team knew their location at all times.

Near Horenka — a village that had been under heavy attack by Russia — an explosion hit their car. It killed everyone but Hall, who was badly hurt, losing one leg, his…