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Tucker Carlson interviews Putin in Moscow after years of anti-Ukraine vitriol

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Tucker Carlson has interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow after spending years on Fox News and subsequently on X denigrating the Ukrainian cause and pushing Kremlin talking points regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Kremlin confirmed on Wednesday that the interview took place on Tuesday, and it is believed to be set for broadcast on Thursday. Carlson has been heavily used in Russian state propaganda as a way to push Russia’s distorted view of the conflict, which was started under the baseless pretence that Ukraine was being led by neo-Nazis, a galling claim as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish and lost relatives in the Holocaust.

When asked directly why Putin granted an interview to Carlson, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said

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