special. military operation, relations with nato and washington and a conversation with tucker carlosn. vladimir putin answered questions from journalist pavel zarubin. vladimirovich, your interview with tatier carlos has already been viewed a billion times , with many different responses, positive ones. well , it’s clear what comments are coming from western leaders, the british prime minister, the german chancellor, they called, i ’ll quote, your attempt to explain the reasons for the start of the special operation and justify it.

so what they watch, listen to, is good, but what they distort , what i say is bad, and distort the map, why, because i didn’t say anything like that, i didn’t say that the start of our special military operation in ukraine is connected with the threat of a nato attack on russia , where this is in my interview, and there is a recording , let them show where exactly i...

said this, i talked about something else, i talked about the fact that we were constantly deceived in terms of nato’s non-expansion to the east, by the way, this was said primarily through the mouth of the then nato secretary general, and to him there was a representative of the federal republic of germany, he said, not inches to the east, then five expansions are a complete deception, we were, of course, worried and worried about the possibility.

the united nations has fulfilled its obligations under this treaty. as i said, we didn’t start the war, we’re just trying to stop it. at the first stage. we tried to do this through peaceful means, with the help of the peaceful minsk agreements, as it turned out later, we were led for us here too, because both the former chancellor of germany and the former president of france admitted directly publicly stated that they had no intention of fulfilling these agreements of ours, but were simply gaining time in order to further pump the ukrainian regime with weapons, which they successfully did.

the only thing we can regret is that we did not begin our active actions earlier, believing that we were dealing with decent people. after all, carlson was criticized immediately before the interview, and after the interview, now blame him for the fact that allegedly few tough questions were asked, allegedly he was too soft with you, you felt very comfortable with him comfortable, that’s what you think, but did you crush it? american journalist with his authority, i think that your carlson, when i say yours, i mean that he is a representative of your journalistic workshop, a dangerous person, that’s why, because i, frankly speaking, thought that he would be will behave aggressively by asking these so-called sharp questions, i was not only ready for this, but i wanted it, because it would give me the opportunity to also...

answer sharply, which, in my opinion, would give a certain specificity to our entire conversation, but he chose a different tactic, he somewhat... just tried to interrupt me, but still , surprisingly for a western journalist , he turned out to be patient, listened to my lengthy ideologies, especially those related to history, and did not give me a reason to do what, why i would have been ready, so frankly speaking, i didn’t get complete pleasure from this interview, but, but it went on.

calls for sanctions against tucker carlos, i actually hear talk that they almost might arrest him there, that’s it, that’s even possible, asange is in prison and everything is about him no one remembers almost anymore, only his relatives, his people talk about it, that’s all, well, that’s how it is, these are the features of public consciousness, so the topic goes away, but the truth is that asandzha was at least accused of giving away some state secrets. this is difficult for carlson to pin down, because he did not touch any secrets at all, however, probably, theoretically, everything is possible in today's america, in today's united states. from the point of view of, well, karsl himself, it would be, it

would be sad, i don’t envy him, but it was his choice, he knew what he was doing, but from the point of view of what... everyone is interested in what? well, he went over some of them, he went through his plan, as i already said, and as i understand it, everything didn’t go beyond the scope of this plan, there were some other topics, for example, that i think it would be important

to talk about, well, i didn’t go too far additional topics that me. the journalist did not raise the question of the demonization of russia in a conversation with me, so the question of the demonization of russia is connected, well, with the same interethnic events, with the jewish pogroms in the russian empire, well of course, they should have arisen during such an official part, well, one of the topics that we and... talked about already when the cameras were turned off, this is exactly what the secretary of state of the united states spoke about several times he talked about this, mr. blinken, that his - his relatives, his great-grandfather fled from russia, from

jewish pogroms, in different countries of the world, in europe, in the states, this topic constantly arises, i repeat,

at least, at least , i want to emphasize this, he believes that there was no ukraine in 1905 in 1904, it was in 1904 that he would disappear. mr. blinkin left kiev for the united states, which means there was no ukraine there, if he says that he fled from russia, apparently, mr. blinkin is our man, but in vain he makes such public statements, this can lead to failure, well, then it immediately comes to us that just the other day the german media, the german media published articles that the grandfather of the current german foreign minister, she is lena berbuk. he was an ardent nazi and considering

everything that has been happening in relations between our countries in recent years, it turns out that maybe, at some genetic level, such a virus of national socialism is being transmitted in this country, well, this is also one of the subtypes of extreme nationalism, by the way, if now it occurred to me... by this pogrom, they basically took place in the russian empire in the south-south-west on the territory of today's ukraine, in kiev i said in 1905, if mr. blinkin's ancestor left in 1904, then the first pogrom in kiev was massive such in 1905, so his great-grandfather or great-great-grandfather could only have learned about this either from a newspaper or...

were in belarus, there were a couple of events of this kind in siberia, but the first was associated with the murder of the greek patriarch in constantinople, then the greeks living there, they considered that the jews were somehow involved in the assassination attempt on the patriarch, but this is not important, the important thing is that , by the way, the squad resisted these pogroms. resistance, which consisted of jewish and russian youth, uh, and the government gave

appropriate assessments, even the tsarist and tried to prevent these tragic events, including with the help of the army, but i repeat again, this is a separate topic, and as for nationalism and nazism, fascism, you know, i ’ll tell you, maybe a strange thing, well, firstly, itself - madam...

well, the next part of what i want to say may sound like a dissonance to

what i just said, i don’t think that today’s generation of germans should bear full political responsibility for everything that nazi germany did, you can’t put it on the people of today’s generation responsibility for what hitler and his henchmen did, and not only in germany, but in other parts of the world, this is a dishonest position, this is an abuse, an abuse of what the peoples of the soviet union experienced, it seems to me, that this is no honor, and there’s no point in it, we must proceed from the realities of today, look at who

is actually doing what and what policies they are pursuing, in this regard, by the way, in my opinion it was... this is what is useful to do , in my opinion, many are now in many countries, even in those in which , it would seem, this should not sound like a political leitmotif, but , unfortunately, it sounds, what i mean is some kind of exclusivity of some peoples over others, some kind of chosenness and so on, well , listen, this is where nazism began.

this will only be effective if it is done at the level of public consciousness and public initiative, and it does not matter in which country in the world this happens. in the european union as a whole , a virtual panic began in connection with the possible return of donald trump to the presidency of the united states. and recent statements, just the other day, by trump and european leaders have generally discouraged them, they do not hide it. trump said the us must protect.

well, it sparked before, so take it, take the withdrawal of the united states from the kyoto agreement in the field of ecology, then it also sparked, but the then president of the united states decided that the united states would withdraw from these agreements, despite all the attractiveness of the environmental agenda, because he believed that it was harmful to the american economy, that's all. made the decision to do it with the end, and no matter how european leaders scolded him, he did it, and then adjusted it, but how is trump’s position different in this sense? yes , basically nothing, he wanted to force the europeans to raise their defense spending, or, as he said, then let them pay us

for protecting them, for opening the uh, atomic umbrella over their heads. and so on, well, i don’t know, let them do it themselves understand, these are their problems , well, probably, from his point of view there is some logic in this, from the point of view of the europeans there is no logic, but they would like the united states to continue to carry out free of charge some functions that have developed since the formation of nato, that’s their business, i think that nato has no use at all anymore. there is no meaning, there is only one meaning, this is an instrument of us foreign policy, but if the united states believes that we do not need this instrument, well, that is their decision, but the current us president biden is giving everything every day there are more reasons for the whole world to discuss the state of his health, this is the president of one of the largest nuclear powers, and at the same time we all actually watch on a daily basis, well

, to put it mildly, extremely specific footage, when you see all this , hear it, what do you think about? i think that the us domestic political campaign, the election campaign, is gaining momentum, it is taking on more and more acute forms, it is incorrect, in my opinion, for us to interfere in this process, well, listen, when i met with biden in switzerland, this it was true a few years ago, 3 years, and then they were already talking about how... capable, i didn’t see anything like that, well, yes, he looked at his piece of paper, i honestly looked at mine, nothing like that, but then that he - somewhere - hit himself while getting out of the helicopter.

to inflict a strategic defeat on russia to the bitter end, well, apparently, they were counting on such a result, but since i told mr. carlson, i can

repeat it to you, but if they see that the result is not working out, apparently they need to make adjustments, but that’s a question m question - art-politics, because politics, as you know, is the art of compromise. and now about a major fire in moscow. a rescue squad is pulled to the building on pushkinskaya square, where the izvestia hall concert hall is located. according to preliminary information, part of the building, which was under reconstruction, is on fire. the fire covered approximately 1,500 m2 and, according to the press service of the capital's head of the ministry of emergency situations, there were no reports of casualties. the fire was assigned the third complexity number, partially. the passage along tverskaya street is blocked putinkovsky pereok. heavy snowfalls and frosts covered a number of russian regions. in

the altai territory, the storm warning, hurricane winds, and blizzards that passed the day before continue. at the same time, the temperature dropped to -30 that night. severe frosts also set in in the urals. in the chelyabinsk and tyumen regions, classes for first-shift schoolchildren were canceled. in the lipetsk region, where 2 days shlide. and the rains also became colder, the roads again turned into a skating rink. the authorities have extended distance learning in schools further on one day. freezing rains added to the work for utility workers in the bryansk region. residents complain about the streets of slideshow. the forecast calls for more rain and sleet in the region today. a heavy snowfall hit the capital region that night; public utilities in moscow and the region prepared special equipment for snow removal in advance. heavy precipitation coupled with gusty conditions. the wind persists and will persist throughout the day. according to forecasters, the snow cover in moscow will grow by 11 cm by evening. due to difficult weather conditions, the ministry of emergency situations recommended that motorists

observe. speed limit and distance, now about the progress of a special military operation, an armored group of paratroopers from transbaikalia stormed a ukrainian armed forces stronghold west of artyomovsk. in a landing combat vehicle, under the cover of darkness, we approached the enemy object closely, covered it closely with heavy fire, made adjustments from a copter equipped with a thermal imager, and completed the job. assault group, everyone is for each other, everyone is together , everyone is moving, at the same time, everyone wants to accomplish, well, everyone’s eyes are burning, to complete the task, we direct, we also correct the work of our artillery, that is, somewhere we see where the exits are coming from, we direct them there, our artillery is already working, the number of deaths during the shelling of a populated area in the south of lebanon has increased. before

eight the day before, hezbollah attacked the headquarters of the idf's northern command in safed with rockets, as a result of which two israeli soldiers were killed and seven wounded, this was confirmed in tel aviv. in response, the israeli military clears the gas strip, and heavy fighting takes place in the north of the enclave. israeli aircraft strike the cities of derelbalakh and khanyunis. many residential areas in the enclave now they look like ruins. dozens were killed under shelling at a refugee camp in the city center. there is a lot of talk about evacuating people, but this is a complete disaster, people simply have nowhere to go, where to evacuate, if they are shooting everywhere, there are simply no places to evacuate them, they told us that israel will not go to half measures and will continue to prepare for war with

the lebanese hezbollah. the goal is always to free the hostages, as prime minister benjamin netanyaha emphasized. donald trump promises that if he returns to the presidency, will push kiev to negotiate with moscow and will reduce the us presence in nato. speaking at a rally before voters in north charleston, the former head of the white house made a number of loud statements and promised americans that the quote would “blow away.” because this is a huge i was never against the northern streams energy project, and biden, having come to power, immediately blocked its work, in fact, harmed germany as well, but he doesn’t

have the mind to... i don’t give up shoot, yesterday these were still brave soldiers who paraded through paris, and here we see completely different soldiers, in general this is an archive, we are working to study the history associated with prisoners, such leaflets were dropped at the front, in civilian positions, the stalingrad city defense committee adopts resolutions that say that

all means must be used... .direction of military construction and prisoners of war, prisoners are not always our enemies, among the prisoners there may be those who sympathize with us, as you see your future fate, get married, start a family, work calmly so that i can be confident in the future.