Following the thrilling news of Putin granting an unusual interview request to media personality, Tucker Carlson, it was announced on X(twitter) that Carlson updated his timeline with the two-hour long video interview with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin
Putin spent more than two hours in formal talks with this member of the Western Media following the start of his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Before labeling American plans to further fund Ukrainian defense as a “cheap provocation” by the United States, Putin spent the first thirty minutes outlining the history of Russia and Ukraine at the close of World War II.
“We’re willing to negotiate,” the Russian president said. “It is the Western side, and Ukraine is obviously a satellite state of the U.S. It is evident,” says the Russian Top man as he maintained that talks to end the crisis with Ukraine were still possible, but he said that attempts to find a settlement were being thwarted by the United States, which was using Ukraine as a proxy.
Putin then asserted that the 2022 destruction of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines was the work of the CIA. Because of the pipelines’ sabotage, which connected Russia to Western Europe, the cause of the explosions’ cause was puzzlingly investigated.
So yet, investigators have not been able to pin the blame on anyone.
Putin’s response about the pipeline destruction “You personally may have an alibi, but the CIA has no such alibi. I won’t get into details, but people always say in such cases look for someone who is interested.”
Carlson asked about Gershkovich, a correspondent of Wall Street Journal who is in detention and if the Kremlin would be willing to release him to his media team to be brought back to the U.S. “as a sign of your decency.”
Gershkovich has been in detention for more than 10months by the Russian government while he awaits trial on charges of espionage. The Journal and the U.S. government have flatly rejected the espionage allegations.
Putin continued, “We have done so many goodwill gestures out of decency that I think we have run out of them,” but he seemed amenable to an undefined reciprocal swap with the United States. Nobody has ever returned the favor to us in a way that we have witnessed. Theoretically, though, we may state that we do not completely rule out the possibility of doing so if our partners follow suit.
You may watch the video here