Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that defeating Moscow in its conflict towards Ukraine was “impossible by definition.”
The remark got here in an interview launched Thursday with controversial right-wing U.S. speak present host Tucker Carlson.
In a two-hour interview with the previous Fox News host – coming simply forward of the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – Putin additionally stated a deal “can be reached” on imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.
“There are certain terms being discussed via special services channels,” he stated, whereas insisting that the reporter is a spy – one thing the Journal and U.S. authorities vehemently deny.
It was the primary one-on-one interview of Putin by somebody from the Western media since 2019.
However, Carlson, who’s near White House candidate and former President Donald Trump, requested few powerful questions and largely listened whereas the Kremlin chief lectured him on his views of Russian historical past, portraying the nation as a sufferer of Western betrayals.
Putin defended his resolution to invade Ukraine in February 2022 and stated the West now realizes that Russia is not going to be defeated, regardless of U.S., European and NATO assist to Ukraine.
“Up until now, there has been the uproar and screaming about inflicting a strategic defeat to Russia on the battlefield. But now they are apparently coming to realize that it is difficult to achieve, if possible, at all. In my opinion, it is impossible by definition,” he stated.
He additionally aimed a message on the U.S. Congress, the place Trump-dominated Republicans are more and more reluctant to maintain backing Ukraine with weapons and different army support.
“I will tell you what we are saying on this matter and what we are conveying to the U.S. leadership. If you really want to stop fighting, you need to stop supplying weapons,” he stated.
When requested if Moscow would take into account invading different international locations within the area – NATO members Poland and Latvia – or usually throughout the European continent, Putin stated that was “out of the question.”
“We have no interest in Poland, Latvia or anywhere else. Why would we do that? We simply don’t have any interest. It’s just threat-mongering,” Putin stated.
A conflict with Poland, he stated, would occur “only in one case: if Poland attacks Russia.”
Asked a couple of attainable change in management after the U.S. election, the place Biden is predicted to face off towards Trump in a rematch of their 2020 contest, Putin indicated he would see little change.
“You just asked me if another leader comes and changes something? It is not about the leader. It is not about the personality of a particular person.”
Facing Putin in matching white chairs with a small desk between them, Carlson hardly ever pushed again in his interview in an ornate room on the Kremlin interview recorded Tuesday and posted on Carlson’s personal web site – and didn’t problem Putin over his relationship with Trump.
While president and since being defeated by Biden, Trump has repeatedly praised Putin and did not condemn the invasion of Ukraine – saying that if he was reelected he would be capable of remedy the conflict in “24 hours,” although not saying how.
By distinction, Biden has branded Putin a “war criminal” and has made backing for Ukraine’s elected, pro-Western authorities one of many key priorities of his presidency.
Source: www.dailysabah.com