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Tucker Carlson confirms Vladimir Putin interview as he hits out at Western media’s ‘fawning’ Ukraine coverage | World News<\/p>\n
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Controversial right-wing media personality Tucker Carlson says he will soon interview Russian President Vladimir Putin, confirming recent rumours.<\/p>\n
It would be the first time Mr Putin<\/strong> is interviewed by Western media since the invasion of Ukraine began.<\/p>\n In a video shared on X, Mr Carlson – who was sacked from Fox News<\/strong> in April last year and has been a vocal supporter of Mr Putin – said he is doing the interview to “inform” Americans.<\/p>\n “Not a single Western journalist has bothered to interview the president of the other country involved in this conflict, Vladimir Putin,” he said, a claim that has since been rejected by journalists covering Russia.<\/p>\n Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist, and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich are both currently detained in Russia.<\/p>\n Mr Carlson said there have been “scores” of interviews with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong>, which he described as “fawning pep sessions” to amplify his demand for greater US involvement.<\/p>\n “Americans have a right to know about the war they are implicated in,” he added.<\/p>\n He said the war in Ukraine is a “human disaster” that altered longstanding political and trade realities throughout the world.<\/p>\n “And yet the populations of the English-speaking countries seem mostly unaware, they think that nothing has really changed and they think that because nobody has told them the truth,” he said.<\/p>\n “Their media outlets are corrupt. They lie to their readers and viewers and they do that mostly by omission.”<\/p>\n