Vladimir Putin gave his first interview since the war in Ukraine to former Fox host Tucker Carlson. Putin used the interview to massage Donald Trump and even give him free publicity, writes Alexander Nekrassov.

The Russian president used the questions of Carlson to lend a hand to the Republicans and justify the invasion of Ukraine with various unfounded theories, he says. Nekrachov: Putin spent more than an hour with the historical chapter, from primitive Ukrainian Rus to the politics of President Leonid Kuchma or the Maidan.