Tucker Carlson's interview with Vladimir Putin
"The Vladimir Putin Interview" is a television interview hosted by the American journalist and political commentator Tucker Carlson with the Russian president Vladimir Putin. It premiered on the Tucker Carlson Network and the social media website Twitter on February 8, 2024. It is the first interview to have been conducted between Putin and a Western journalist since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022. Most of the conversation between the two men was focused on the Russo-Ukrainian War, as well as the dynamic between Russia and NATO since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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