US talk host Tucker Carlson has announced that he is set to interview Vladimir Putin after arriving in Moscow on February 1.
Discussing his reasons behind the interview, former Fox News host said it his duty as a journalist to "inform people" and the West has "never heard the voice" of the Russian president.
Carlson will be the first Western journalist to interview Putin since the Ukrainian war began in February 2022.
The TV host said it would be published "unedited" and "not behind a paywall" on his personal website.
US talk host Tucker Carlson has announced that he is set to interview Vladimir Putin after arriving in Moscow on February 1Getty/ XSpeaking in a video on social media, Carlson said he had been motivated to sit down with Putin because "the populations of the English-speaking countries" were ill-informed about the war in Ukraine, alleging that was "because no one has told them the truth."
"Two years into a war that's reshaping the entire world, most Americans are not informed," he said.
"They have no real idea what's happening in this region, here in Russia or 600 miles away in Ukraine.
"But they should know, they're paying for much of it in ways they might not fully yet perceive. The war in Ukraine is a human disaster."
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He added that there is more to the story and that the Western media is misleading its audience.
"Their media outlets are corrupt. They lie to their readers and viewers, and they do that mostly by omission," Carlson said.
"We are not here because we love Vladimir Putin. We are here because we love the United States, and we want it to remain prosperous and free."
The last time Putin sat down with an American journalist was in June 2021 with NBC’s Keir Simmons.
Carlson will be the first Western journalist to interview Putin since the Ukrainian war began in February 2022
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Elon Musk, the owner of X where the video will be published, has promised not to suppress or block the interview once it’s posted, Carlson said.
The conservative journalist went on to say that since the war in Ukraine began, Western media has interviewed Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky many times.
He added that they are "fawning pep sessions" aimed at amplifying Zelensky's demand to get the US more and more involved in the war.
"That is not journalism - it is government propaganda."