Putin’s interview with American host Tucker Carlson will be broadcast this Thursday

An interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin by Tucker Carlson, an American presenter close to Donald Trump, will be broadcast on his website this Thursday, February 8, the former television star announced on his Instagram account on Wednesday. The interview will be published at 6:00 p.m. Washington time (midnight in Paris), he said in a black-and-white post, on which the faces of both men are displayed.

Tucker Carlson, a close friend of Donald Trump’s longtime star host on Fox News Channel, recently traveled to Moscow for the first interview Vladimir Putin has given to a Western journalist since Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Tucker Carlson, who has repeatedly criticized American support for Ukraine in recent months, now has a show on X (formerly Twitter).

Two American journalists are still in detention

This new interview with Vladimir Putin is not necessary to understand, the White House said on Wednesday “cruelty” of the Russian President. “What Mr. Putin did in Ukraine should be clear to everyone, viz (should be) artificial and ridiculous reasons by which he tries to justify” His action, the spokesman for the American executive, John Kirby, told the press.

The American presenter’s visit, a regular relay of conspiracy theories, was widely covered by Russian state media. The Kremlin, however, objected to Tucker Carlson, who boasted of being the only person willing to speak to the Russian president, claiming to receive interview requests from Vladimir Putin from Western media. But Tucker Carlson has a “A place that contrasts with traditional Anglo-Saxon media”A spokesman for Russian President Dmitry Peskov estimated.

The access Tucker Carlson enjoys contrasts with other restrictions on foreign journalists in Russia, where two American journalists, Ivan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva, were arrested and detained last year.