Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson returns to Moscow to interview Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson announced on Wednesday that he had traveled to Moscow to interview Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

In a video posted on X, Carlson said that he wanted to do the interview because Russia and the U.S. are “closer to nuclear war than at any time in history” and most Americans “have no access to any perspective other than that granted to them by NBC News and the New York Times.”

Carlson also said that his team tried for over a year to get an interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “We’ve attacked that from a bunch of different angles. We’ve spoken to a lot of different people around him, had dinner with them. We’ve been in talks continuously, and those efforts have been thwarted by the U.S. government,” he said.

According to Carlson, the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv told Zelensky’s government that he could not give Carlson an interview. “You can talk to CNN, you can’t talk to us,” he claimed the Embassy told Zelensky’s administration.

Carlson said that in his interview with Sergey Lavrov, he asked the foreign minister whether the U.S. and Russia are “headed toward an unprecedented conflict,” whether there’s “any way to peel Russia back from the sphere of China back in to the West,” and whether Donald Trump’s election will bring an end to the war in Ukraine.

The interview will be published “very soon,” according to Carlson. Russia Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova confirmed that the interview took place, posting a photo of Lavrov and Carlson together on Telegram.

In February 2024, Tucker Carlson traveled to Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin.