Wandering Putin claims Russia has 'unstoppable' missiles and issues chilling warnings to West in two-hour rant from Tucker Carlson – The Sun
FORMER Fox News journalist Tucker Carlson has finally released his impressive interview with Russian despot Vladimir Putin.
In a humiliating threat to the West, the ruthless tyrant boasted of the unstoppable power of his nuclear missile program.
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Putin told Carlson that his nuclear arsenal was developed as a measure against the West and NATO.
He said: “We have created hypersonic systems with intercontinental range, and we continue to develop them.
“We are now ahead of everyone, the United States and the other countries, when it comes to developing hypersonic attack systems.”
The tyrant brazenly denied starting the war in 2022, claiming instead that the past two years had been his attempts to stop Ukraine's war against him.
Putin added that he has not been able to achieve his goals because one of them is denazification.
“This means the ban on all types of neo-Nazi movements,” he said.
“I say that Ukrainians are part of the one Russian people. They say: no, we are a separate people.
'Okay fine. If they consider themselves a separate people, they have the right to do so.
“But not on the basis of Nazism, Nazi ideology.”
From the very beginning of the war, the Kremlin has made distorted claims Ukraine is accused of being under a Nazi regime – while the country continues to deny any involvement in civilian attacks.
Putin is notorious for his shameless smear campaigns against the West.
Just a handful of months after his offensive against Ukraine, the autocrat began denying all the massacres he had ordered his troops to carry out.
A promoted state television report was released, twisting the story into an allegation that the scenes of the Bucha massacre were staged by the British.
Putin's propaganda machine has repeatedly tried to cover up Russia's involvement in alleged atrocities, including its use cluster bombs to destroy Ukrainians.
But despite the bizarre claims Putin made during the interview, Putin's war has been responsible for the deaths of millions of Ukrainian and Russian troops.
James Heappey, the British Defense Secretary, revealed that at least 302,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since the war began.
Tens of thousands of others have already left their countries since the invasion began.
Independent journalist Alexander Nevzorov has drawn attention to the macabre sight of the masses of bodies lining the main eastern Ukrainian city Adviivka.
He said: “The entrance to Avdiivka has long become a huge mass grave [Putin’s fighters].
“But now the Russians are covering the area with a new carpet of their corpses.”
Nevzorov said there was no military reason for Putin wanting to “liberate” the city and declared: “In all polling stations, the ballot boxes must bow to the mad king of corpses.”
“The fighting is crazy. Orcs [Russian fighters] climbing over the corpses of their comrades, 'forward to the victory of Putinism'.”
The dictator's barbaric war has caused the tragic deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and left countless others with serious injuries.
Last year, the International Criminal Court found Putin guilty the 'unlawful deportation' of children from Ukraine – a war crime under the Geneva Convention – and issued a warrant for his arrest.
At the time, Ukraine's human rights chief Dmytro Lubinets said 16,226 children were known to have been abducted and deported. That number is now believed to have increased.
A UN investigative body has also accused Russian forces of committing widespread war crimes in Ukraine, including torture and the use of rape as a systematic weapon of war.
Horror war crimes committed in Ukraine after Putin launched invasion
Ukrainian officials believe that more than 100,000 cases of war crimes have been committed by Russian forces since February 2022.
On March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for his crimes against children.
The UN Commission of Inquiry into the War on Ukraine ruled that Putin's accomplices were responsible for the kidnapping and deportation of tens of thousands of children.
Russian forces have also been found responsible for the torture and murder of thousands of Ukrainian civilians – in addition to countless rapes.
The Russian despot has denied targeting civilians, but further investigation into the war shows there have been deliberate rocket attacks on civilian shelters, multiple shootings of civilian vehicles and instances of civilians being used as human shields.
Ukrainian forces have also alleged that Russia has used filtration camps, which they describe as “modern concentration camps,” where masses of Ukrainians have been subjected to electrical torture, beatings, stabbings and shootings.
In the annexed regions, there have also been cases of Ukrainian citizens being forced to join the pro-Russian separatist forces.
Carlson has come under intense criticism for his decision to act as speaker for the despotwhose war in Ukraine has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and turned the world order upside down.
In 2017, the then host of Fox News falsely claimed that the Russian tyrant posed no danger to America. Instead, he argued, the “left” chose to see Putin behind all the country's problems.
His pro-Putin rhetoric skyrocketed in the run-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine – just months earlier he claimed that Americans hated their country more than Putin, arguing that “Russia is not our enemy”.
And in 2022, after the tyrannical Putin began his brutal war, Carlson went so far as to question why he had to oppose the invasion.
This interview marks the first time since before the war that Putin has been interviewed by a Western journalist.
The Kremlin said the interview with Carlson was allowed because his approach is different from that of the rest of the “one-sided” Western media.
But journalists have dismissed the interview as little more than a censored puff piece.
The interview comes after a thousand independent Russian journalists fled the country to escape Putin's sweeping censorship laws, which criminalize any critical reporting on the war.
Dozens of journalists have been targeted by Russian soldiers, with some shot and a handful killed by shelling.
Putin's war in Ukraine leaves a devastating death toll
A staggering one 10,000 Ukrainian civilian deaths have been recorded since Putin launched his brutal invasion in February 2022.
But the UN believes the actual number is much higher.
This estimate includes more than 560 children.
It is also thought that Ukraine has at least lost 70,000 soldiers in the fight against Russia.
174 citizen citizens from other countries were also killed during Putin's offensive – three of which are from Great Britain.
Dozens of journalists have also been killed – although the exact number has yet to be determined.
Meanwhile, it is estimated that Russia has only lost 79 citizens.
Putin has lost 300,000 soldiers in bloody meat grinder battles since the beginning of his war.
Just ten months into his own war, Putin had already lost 100,000 Russian men.
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