Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, the Kremlin says.
Carlson said earlier on X he wanted to do the interview because "Americans have a right to know all they can about a war they are implicated in".
It's Mr Putin's first one-on-one interview with a Western journalist since the full-scale war in Ukraine.
The interview was release at 6;00PM EST on Thursday, Carlson announced.
Tucker Carlson's visit to Moscow has been reported on voraciously in Russian state media, with near-constant coverage of his every move.
"There are risks to doing an interview like this, obviously, so we've thought about it over many months," Carlson said on his announcement video.
Carlson added that he had paid for the trip to Russia himself, and wanted to do the interview because "most Americans are not informed" on the conflict which is "reshaping the world" - blaming the mainstream media.
Since the war in Ukraine began, he said, Western journalists had interviewed Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky - whom he has previously called a "dictator" - many times.
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