• 11/25/2024

During meeting with Biden, Scholz said Putin lied a lot in interview with American journalist

Pravda Ukraine

During a meeting with US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz recalled the “meaningless interview” that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave former American TV host Tucker Carlson.

Source: European Pravda; German tabloid newspaper Bild

Scholz said that during the interview, the Russian dictator told “a lot of lies about the history of this war.” 

The Chancellor noted that Putin was only interested in “getting a piece of the territory of his neighbours, and called this behaviour “imperialism”. 

He stressed that the only reason that Russia’s war against Ukraine continues is “the desire of the Russian president to annex parts of Ukraine.”

“The general message for him [Putin] should be: Our assistance for Ukraine will not decrease,” Scholz added.

Background:

  • Earlier, the European Commission noted that in that interview, Putin repeated old lies, distortions and manipulations.
  • UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statement that the war he unleashed against Ukraine is the result of NATO expansion “completely meaningless”.
  • Radosław Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, noted that Putin’s statements are not new at all, but it is shocking that an American journalist distributed them. 

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