Vladimir Putin’s interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has made headlines across the world – but not for the right reasons.
Aside from the Russian president's myriad untrue statements about his war in Ukraine, a number of other false claims about how Carlson secured the interview have flooded social media.
Here's a rundown of where the interview went awry.
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In the controversial encounter, Putin once again claimed that Ukraine started the war and that Russia wants to end it.
This is untrue.
Russia initially attacked Ukraine back in 2014, when it annexed Crimea and later occupied parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Russia then began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, despite repeated assurances by Putin that he was planning no such thing.
Since then, Russia has ignored demands from the UN and the International Court of Justice to withdraw.
The first 30 minutes or so of the interview saw Putin present an argument denying Ukraine’s statehood and claiming that it’s a historical part of Russia.
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