Vladimir Putin brings up Canada's applause for ex-Nazi in Tucker Carlson interview

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for joining in a standing ovation for a Nazi soldier in the Canadian Parliament.

“People who exterminated Jews, Russians and Poles are alive. And the president, the current president of today’s Ukraine applauds him in the Canadian Parliament, gives a standing ovation,” Putin said, according to a transcript posted online by the Kremlin. “Can we say that we have completely uprooted this ideology if what we see is happening today?”

Carlson is the first western journalist to interview Putin, who spoke through a translator in the two-hour interview. While multiple other news outlets have requested interviews with Putin, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian president, said the interview with Carlson was granted because “he has a position which differs” from that of other English media.