The American pro-Russian journalist Tucker Carlson, who interviewed Vladimir Putin the day before, said that the Russian president is ready to make a “serious compromise on Ukraine”. Carlson said this during his speech at the World Government Summit in Dubai, according to 
He said that he spoke with the Russian dictator off the record after the interview, but did not disclose the details of the conversation.
Asked by an Egyptian journalist at the Dubai summit whether he felt Putin was ready to compromise to end the war, Carlson replied:
“Of course. Leaders of any country on this planet, except perhaps the United States during the unipolar period, have to compromise by the nature of their job. This is what diplomacy is all about. And he [Putin] is among those [leaders who are willing to compromise].”
However, Carlson believes that Putin may be less willing to compromise as the war continues.
“His position is clearly getting stronger. Russia has been rebuffed by the West. Putin wants to get out of this war, he will not become more open to negotiations the longer it goes on. Russia’s industrial potential has turned out to be much more serious than we thought. The country that was called a petrol station with nuclear weapons makes missiles and shells, unlike NATO,”
– he said.
However, what “compromise” means in this case remains unclear.
The interview with journalist Tucker Carlson was Putin’s first interview with a foreign media figure since the invasion in February 2022.
The result of the collaboration between the Russian war criminal and the American propagandist was expected to be one of the most vile information products that either of them has ever created. But from the point of view of Russian narratives, Putin said nothing new. Putin used the opportunity to push his narrative on the war in Ukraine, to call on Washington to recognise Moscow’s interests and to pressure Kyiv to come to the negotiating table.
For more than two hours, Putin bombarded Carlson with Russian history, propaganda, and Kremlin talk.
At the end, he directly addressed the US, repeating and copying Carlson’s own rhetoric. Putin reminded them that America has so many problems of its own – why should it get involved in a conflict tens of thousands of miles away? Wouldn’t it be better to reach an agreement with Russia and start respecting it and its interests?
Throughout the interview, the American propagandist did not ask Putin a single uncomfortable question. Carlson was also completely uninterested in the lives of Ukrainians and Russian military atrocities.