Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden is accelerating towards the possibility of nuclear war between America and Russia, “back channel” de-escalation methods developed during the Cold War are being ignored, and the U.S. government has blocked repeated requests to interview Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, broadcaster Tucker Carlson said as he revealed a new Russia interview overnight. Speaking in a trailer for the forthcoming broadcast with Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s top diplomat, Carlson revealed he’d travelled to Moscow for the discussion and that he’d found the interview “absolutely fascinating”.

The Russian government confirmed the interview has been recorded, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova saying it was “quite long, over an hour and a half” and that it would have to be translated before broadcast. On the topics covered, she said the discussion touched on the state of Russian-U.S. relations, the Ukraine War, and “global geopolitics”.

Zakharova also made clear the Russian government’s own view on the nature and purpose of the war was expressed by her boss Lavrov, including allegations — common to Russia’s rhetoric over the conflict — that Ukraine was committing terrorist attacks against civilians.

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