The interview was carried out in Moscow on Tuesday and aired on tuckercarlson.com.
Putin spoke in Russian and his remarks have been dubbed into English. He started with prolonged remarks about Russia’s relations with Ukraine, Poland and different international locations.
The Kremlin mentioned Putin agreed to the Carlson interview as a result of the method of the previous Fox Information host differed from the “one-sided” reporting of the Ukraine battle by many Western information shops.
Carlson is taken into account to have shut connections to former US President Donald Trump, who is predicted to be the Republican Occasion candidate within the November US presidential election.
Trump has known as for de-escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, by which the Biden administration has strongly backed the federal government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and complained concerning the billions of {dollars} in help despatched to date.
For his half, Carlson has mentioned a lot Western media protection of the conflict is biased in Kyiv’s favour.