Kremlin grants Tucker Carlson an interview with Putin -- but refutes his claims about Western media's efforts

Source: Associated Press

Kremlin grants Tucker Carlson an interview with Putin — but refutes his claims about Western media's efforts

The Associated Press · Posted: Feb 07, 2024 12:46 PM EST | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been interviewed by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the Kremlin confirmed Wednesday.

It is Putin's first interview to a Western media figure since his full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago.

Carlson had released a video from Moscow on Tuesday in which he said he would be interviewing Putin.

Carlson claimed that Western journalists had interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy multiple times but could not be "bothered" to interview the Russian president.

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He said the Kremlin has received many requests from large Western television channels and newspapers which, he asserted, "take a one-sided position." Carlson's position, Peskov said, "is in no way pro-Russian, nor pro-Ukrainian, but rather pro-American."

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Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/putin-interview-carlson-1.7107566

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