More than 2.5 million people started watching Carlson’s interview with Putin in 15 minutes

In the first 15 minutes since the publication of American journalist Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin on social network X, more than 2.5 million people began to watch it. This is evidenced by data on page journalist.

Note that the recording of the interview was published on the former Twitter at 02:25 Moscow time – almost half an hour later than on the journalist’s website.

The number of views continues to increase rapidly. In addition, social network users have already left more than 5.5 thousand comments and 76 thousand likes.

Let us remind you that on February 3, the famous American journalist Tucker Carlson was spotted in Moscow. He was seen at the Bolshoi Theater in the ballet “Spartacus”. The purpose of Carlson’s visit to Russia was not stated. The journalist himself did not write anything about this on social networks.

Rumors spread in the media that Carlson came to Russia to interview Vladimir Putin. REN TV published a video in which Carlson commented on this information, saying: “We’ll see.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on February 5 that he currently had nothing to report about Putin’s possible interview with Carlson.

Answering a question about the reasons for his visit to Russia, Carlson admitted that he had heard a lot about our country and wanted to see it in person, communicate with people and “see how everything works.”

The former Fox News host called the American media “really crazy” for reacting violently to the news of his trip to Moscow.

Later, the Russian leader’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, confirmed the information that Carlson recorded an interview with Putin. The impressions from this conversation, as Peskov added, can be judged after its publication.

Before this, the journalist announced an interview with the President of Russia. As American presenter Alex Jones reported on social network X, Carlson spoke with Putin for two hours. According to him, the journalist promised not to delay the release of the interview.