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With the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Saturday, Fox News‘ Bret Baier sat down with Volodymyr Zelensky for an interview on the front lines.
The fate of a U.S. aid package, now all but stalled in the House, was a centerpiece of the interview, but Baier also brought up former Fox News host Tucker Carlson‘s recent sit down with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Baier asked Zelensky, “My former colleague Tucker Carlson recently traveled to Moscow and sat down for an interview with Vladimir Putin. Did you happen to see that or coverage of it?”
The Ukrainian leader responded, “I heard some messages in media, and, also, my guys who are advisers, they said.So I don’t have to do — I don’t have time to hear more than two hours of bullshit about us, about the world, about the United States, about our relations, and this interview with a killer. So I have got some briefly what were there.”
Carlson hosted the network’s most-watched primetime program until it was canceled last April. He has since launched his own online site, but the full Putin interview was posted for free on X/Twitter. The interview was widely panned for not challenging Putin, but Carlson has been critical of U.S. support for Ukraine.
The interview was Zelensky’s first on the front lines of the war with Russia, in what Baier described as a 700-mile trek across Ukraine. The interview took place in the town of Kupiansk, about a mile and a half from Russian forces, he said.
Zelensky told Baier that without U.S. aid, “we will have more and more such heroic guys who will be in the hospitals, because, if you don’t have a real defending shield and some similar powerful artillery with the rounds, of course, you will lose people.”
