Zelensky denies accepting interview with Tucker Carlson

After Tucker Carlson took to X saying he'd potentially gotten Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to agree to sit down for an interview, Zelensky's staff released a statement denying that any such meeting had been organized. The former Fox News host has been trying to sit down with the leader of the war-torn nation for months, but all requests appear to have been refused.

In February, Carlson visited Moscow and conducted an interview with Vladimir Putin. His decision to speak with the Russian leader was preceded, and followed, by a promise to do the same with Zelensky.

"Mr. Tucker Carlson should check his FSB sources more carefully," presidential spokesperson Sergii Nykyforov said in a statement, per Newsweek, referring to Russia's Federal Security Service. "The president of Ukraine has a completely different schedule, and Tucker Carlson is not on it."

Zelensky has not been a fan of Carlson, saying following his interview with Putin, "I don't have time to hear more than two hours of bullsh*t about us, about the world, about the United States, about our relations and this interview with a killer."

"Looks like we've got the Zelenskyy interview," Carlson posted on X Wednesday. "We've been trying for two years, and with particular intensity after interviewing Putin in February. The point is to bring Americans much-needed information about the conflict that’s completely reshaping their country’s position in the world. Coming soon we hope."

Among those who celebrated the possibility was Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko. He said Zelensky sitting down with Carlson was "a good idea."

"There is no question Ukraine can't give a fair answer to," he added, "and unlike Putin, a Ukrainian wartime leader has no need to crack freakishly weird mumbo-jumbo pseudo-historical freak Viking era theories to explain why Ukraine fights for survival in the largest European war of aggression since Hitler and why it is so important to help Ukraine win."