The Russian president made a number of well-worn and controversial claims about Russia’s war in Ukraine in an interview with a former Fox News host. The Cube takes a closer look at the misinformation surrounding broadcasting.
advertisementPresident Vladimir Putin’s interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson made headlines around the world, but not for the right reasons.
Apart from the Russian president’s countless false statements about the war in Ukraine, social media is flooded with many other false claims about how Mr. Carlson secured the interview.
Summarize where the interview went wrong.
During the controversial meeting, Putin reiterated that Ukraine started the war and that Russia wants to end it.
This is not true.
Russia first attacked Ukraine in 2014, annexing Crimea and later occupying parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
Russia then launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, despite President Putin’s repeated assurances that there were no such plans.
Since then, Russia has ignored calls from the United Nations and the International Court of Justice to withdraw.
Ukraine is a sovereign state
In the first 30 minutes of the interview, Putin denied Ukraine’s statehood and argued that Ukraine is a historical part of Russia.
It is true that Ukraine is a sovereign state and is recognized by United Nations member states, including Russia itself. Ukraine’s centuries-old history is an established fact.
Putin also said the conflict was necessary to denazify Ukraine and protect Russian-speakers, and that Ukrainians still think of themselves as Russians, which is wrong. .
The Ukrainian people as a whole, including Ukrainian and Russian speakers, are at war with Russia. In fact, most Russian speakers living in Ukraine have switched to using Ukrainian.
Ukraine stands firmly to liberate all occupied territories, reject any Russian interference and pursue its own path.
False claims made by Carlson
Putin did not just make false claims.
In announcing the interview, Carlson said he was the only Western journalist who had attempted to contact President Putin since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
This is not true.
Not only did various journalists come out and say that requests for interviews with President Putin were repeatedly refused, but even the Kremlin refuted this claim.
According to the Russians news reportRussian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Karlsson was wrong and that he had received numerous requests to meet with Putin.
advertisementAnother false claim suggested that Carlson was included in a Ukrainian assassination plot as a result of the interview.
The tweet, which has been viewed millions of times, suggests that Carlson was placed on Milotovorets’ “kill list” after the broadcast.
of List of Milot Borets is an independent project aimed at tracking Ukraine’s potential enemies.
Several people died after their details were published on the list, but a link between the two has not been proven.
Additionally, Carlson was on the list even before the interview, and there have been no calls for violence against him.
advertisementAnother false claim about Karlsson, made on social media, was that the EU was considering sanctions against him because of the interview.
Euronews is already debunked this claimthe European Commission confirmed that discussions regarding sanctions are not proceeding.