Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said Tuesday he has secured an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin and plans to publish it in the near future.
The sit-in will be the first time Western media personnel have interviewed President Putin since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which sparked a continuing war between the two countries.
“I am not recommending that President Putin agree to speak in this interview,” Carlson said. Video posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “But we advise you to look at it. You should know as much as possible, so you can decide for yourself, like a free citizen and not a slave. .”
Mr. Carlson did not say when his interview with Mr. Putin would be made public, but in a four-minute presentation he spoke to the U.S. media and the United States about what he described as blind support for Ukraine in the war effort. blamed the government.
Carlson has long been critical of U.S. involvement in the conflict, the Ukrainian government and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and said he had also requested a meeting with Zelenskiy.
Speaking from a balcony high above Moscow, Carlson acknowledged what he called “the risks of conducting an interview like this” and said he and his crew had paid for the trip to Moscow. They said they paid for it themselves and received no financial assistance from government organizations. trip.
Carlson, a former Fox News pundit, was taken off the air by the network last spring and has since started his own media company and launched a new show on X.
He said Elon Musk, who owns the social media platform, has promised not to “censor” or suppress the interview, and that the interview will not be behind a paywall.
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