In Depth | 5 Claims From Putin’s Tucker Carlson Interview, Fact-Checked

When Tucker Carlson announced his interview with Vladimir Putin claiming that “no Western journalist had bothered” to interview the Russian president, he was immediately corrected by not only other journalists but the Kremlin itself. When the interview was finally released, Putin spent the first 30 minutes explaining his inaccurate assertion that Russia has a historical claim over Ukraine. He also accused the West and Kyiv of starting the war in Ukraine in 2014, another inaccurate claim.