[HIGHLIGHTS] German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin a "mockery" and "absurd"

"We remain firmly on the side of Ukraine," says German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. "The Russian president mocks what Russia is really doing in Ukraine," he says.

Putin said in the interview broadcast on Thursday that it was Ukraine that started the war in 2014. He also considered that Russia has not yet achieved its objectives in Ukraine, because one of them is its "denazification" of the country. The interview was conducted by U.S. journalist Tucker Carlson, who is based in Washington.