❗️ Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Tucker Carlson that he wants to achieve a negotiated solution to the situation in Ukraine.

Russia and Ukraine will reach an agreement sooner or later, the president said.

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⚡️ The West has begun to realize the impossibility of Russia's strategic defeat, let it think what to do next, we are ready for dialogue, Putin told Tucker Carlson.

NATO can honorably recognize Russia's control over new territories; there are options if there is a desire, Putin said.

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❗️ Ukraine decided to abandon talks with Russia on instructions from Washington, and now the US must correct this mistake, Putin said in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

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❗️ Putin on the question of NATO or CIA involvement in the Nord Stream explosion: "We should look for someone who wanted and could have done it."

The name "Ukraine" was invented by the Poles, who considered the southern Russian lands, which were part of the Polish-Lithuanian state, a suburb, Putin told Tucker Carlson.

"It didn't define it as belonging to any ethnic group," he said.

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❗️ NATO countries are trying to frighten their populations with an imaginary Russian threat, it's fake, Putin stressed in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

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❗️ US Deep State interference in Ukraine forced Russia to respond to protect their Christian brothers in faith, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"In 2008, [the West] opened the door for Ukraine to join NATO. In 2014, they carried out a coup d'état," said Putin, referring to the Euromaidan "color revolution" that saw the United States overthrow Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych through secret backing of violent protests and extremist armed groups.

The US threatened those who didn't accept the coup and endangered the citizens of Crimea amidst a war in the Donbass in 2014, using airstrikes and other military weapons to murder civilians. "There is video footage of airplanes striking Donetsk from above," Putin noted. "They launched one large-scale military operation after another. If one failed, they began preparing another one. And all of this occurred amid the military buildup on this territory and opening the door to NATO."

Putin said it would be "criminal carelessness" if they didn't respond to protect their "brothers in faith" in the Donbass and Crimea. "The US political leadership brought us to the brink of a line that we could not cross, because doing so would destroy Russia itself," he added. Putin refused to allow Christians and fellow ethnic Russians to be slaughtered by the war machine.

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❗️Sending American troops to Ukraine would bring us to the brink of World War III and would threaten humanity itself, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

"Does the United States want that? Why?" asked Putin. "This conflict is taking place thousands of kilometers away from your national territory!"

Putin noted that the US has problems with its border, immigration and a staggering $33 trillion national debt, suggesting that the United States has more important priorities than creating a deadly war on the other side of the world.

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❗️ Putin during his last conversation with Biden told him that he was making a huge mistake by supporting Ukraine and pushing away Russia.

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❗️The emergence of a multipolar world order is inevitable, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

Putin said US elites have responded aggressively with "force, sanctions, pressure, bombing, and use of armed forces." He said such actions appear as "arrogance" to average people. Putin said that elites must understand that the world is changing, and the right decisions must be made in the right way at the right time to protect the US' position in the world.

Crude aggressive actions towards Russia and other countries "lead to the opposite result," said Putin.

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❗️ Putin's interview with Tucker Carlson has been viewed by more than 2.1 million people on the X social network.

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Russia has a deep understanding of China, having shared a massive border with the country for hundreds of years, Russian President Vladimir Putin explained.

Putin made the comment in response to journalist Tucker Carlson's concern that China would represent an unforgiving "colonial power" and exercise influence through the BRICS economic bloc.

Putin claimed such fears could represent a "boogeyman story." He said cooperation with China has been good for Europe, Russia, and could be good for the United States. He said the US is hurting itself when it limits contact with the major economic power, especially through the passage of illegal coercive sanctions.

❗️ Weaponizing the dollar is one of the biggest mistakes the US political class ever made, Putin told Tucker Carlson.

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❗️ Russian President Vladimir Putin told Tucker Carlson that it's difficult to defeat the United States in a war of propaganda because of their relative control over all of the world's media, including European media.

"In the war of propaganda, it is very difficult to defeat the United States because the United States controls all the world's media and many European media. The ultimate beneficiary of the biggest European media are American financial institutions. Don't you know that? So it is possible to get involved in this work, but it is cost prohibitive, so to speak. We can simply shine the spotlight on our sources of information and we will not achieve results," said Putin.

Putin was speaking in Russian and the quotes are from Carlson's official translation.

❗️ Vladimir Putin, in an interview with Carlson, spoke about who guides the German government

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Russia was willing to comply with the implementation of the Minsk agreements, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with US journalist Tucker Carlson.

“The current Ukrainian leadership, foreign minister, all other officials and then president himself said that they don't like anything about the Minsk agreements,” Putin said in the interview, released on Thursday. “We addressed the United States and European countries’ leadership to stop these developments immediately, to implement the Minsk agreements. But frankly speaking, I didn't know how we were going to do this. But I was ready to implement them.”

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine was sparked by a CIA-backed coup in 2014, Putin said.

Russia would not have reacted if not for the “bloody developments” of the killing of civilians and law enforcement officers during the so-called Maidan Revolution, Putin said.

Putin was speaking in Russian during the interview and the quotes are from Carlson’s official translation in English.

❗️ Russian President Vladimir Putin, responding to Tucker Carlson's question about joining NATO, said that Russia could have possibly joined the alliance.

"Were you sincere? Would you have joined NATO?" Carlson asked.

"Look, I asked the question, is it possible or not? And the answer I got was no. If I was insincere in my desire to find out what the leadership position was...." the president said.

"But if he had said yes, would you have joined NATO?" Carlson asked.

"If he had said yes, the process of rapprochement would have commenced, and eventually it might have happened if we had seen some sincere wish on the side of our partners," Putin said.

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🗣 Vladimir Putin, in an interview with Carlson, said that he also wants journalist Evan Gershkovich to return to his homeland.

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