[Russia] - Fact-Check: Tucker Carlson Interviews Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Questionable conservative personality Tucker Carlson went back to Russia to speak with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov following a prominent
interview with President Vladimir Putin in February
Their coversation covered topics such as United States -Russian relations, Washingtons diplomacy and Russias current usage of the Oreshnik
missile.Throughout the interview, Lavrov repeated basic Russian talking points about the war in Ukraine and cast doubt over the accuracy of
the Bucha massacre, in addition to the poisonings of Alexei Navalny and Sergei and Yulia Skripal utilizing the Novichok nerve agent.The
Moscow Times scrutinized several claims made in the interview.American servicemen are launching Western long-range missiles into Russia
Lavrov and CarlsonWhen Carlson revealed this interview, he stated clearly that American military personnel introduced rockets into mainland
Russia, while Lavrov claimed that Ukraine would not have the ability to do so without United States servicemen.There is no evidence that
American servicemen are launching ATACMS or any other Western missile systems either into Russia or at targets in Ukraine
Kyiv utilizes HIMARS platforms to launch its United States -donated ATACMS missiles
Ukrainian servicemen were trained by United States personnel on how to use them in the United States, Germany and Poland.Russia did not
start the war in Ukraine LavrovLike Putin, Lavrov attempted to blame NATO and the West for the war in Ukraine, firmly insisting that Russia
did not start it despite introducing a full-scale intrusion of the nation in February 2022 and trying to catch the capital, Kyiv.Russia is
not discussing eradicating anybodies population with nuclear weapons LavrovSince the start of the war, Russian officials have actually
referenced their nations nuclear arsenal over 200 times
A number of these declarations including some by Lavrov referenced nuclear escalation spiraling out of control with fatal consequences in a
pattern experts state are aimed at preventing Western assistance to Ukraine.Furthermore, propagandists on state television have actually
boasted that Russia might use nuclear weapons to ruin NATO member states, including erasing Britain with a radioactive tsunami.Casting doubt
over the Bucha massacre LavrovLavrov, like numerous other Russian authorities, has actually claimed that proof that Russian forces massacred
civilians in the Ukrainian city of Bucha was staged and blatantly provocative.This is in spite of proof varying from witness statement and
caught video to obstructed phone and radio interactions of Russian systems and satellite images showing bodies scattered in the streets
during the occupation.While Lavrov did not explicitly state that no massacre occurred in this interview, he told Carlson that he
consistently asked the UN to supply Russia with an official list of individuals killed in order to substantiate the accusations leveled
versus Russias forces
However, the identities of the massacres victims are not a trick: morgues in the city publishedlists of determined and unidentified bodies,
and the Bucha City Council informed The Insider that a verified list was offered on request.Did the Russians truly toxin Navalny?
LavrovSimilarly, Lavrov recommended that the West was concealing the results of tests in a German healthcare facility that figured out the
now-dead Kremlin critic was poisoned with Novichok, a nerve representative developed in Russia
Nevertheless, a medical report from Navalnys doctors at the Berlin Charit Hospital was launched in the prominent Lancet medical journal in
January 2021
Navalny called the reports publication evidence of the poisoning Russia keeps demanding.Plans for British marine bases on the Azov Sea
LavrovIn 2021, London and Kyiv signed an agreement to boost Ukraines naval abilities
This consisted of arrangements to produce new warships along with the building of two brand-new naval bases on the Black Sea and the Sea of
Azov.However, these plans were for Ukrainian bases built with British support, not British Royal Navy bases on Ukrainian territory.Zelensky
is no longer the democratically chosen president of Ukraine CarlsonOrdinarily, Zelenskys term as president would have ended in May 2024,
following elections that March
Elections in Ukraine are clearly prohibited under martial law, which was stated on Feb
24, 2022
Regardless of this, some critics have declared it is unconstitutional for Zelensky to remain president
Constitutional attorneys informed The Kyiv Independent which has actually been crucial of Zelenskys federal government that he is legally
permitted to do so and that elections might not be held in wartime
The European Commission found that while martial law infringed on some basic rights of Ukrainian residents, these short-term constraints
were proportional to the crisis.Zelensky banned peace negotiations with Russia LavrovThis claim, which Putin also made in his conversation
with Carlson, is inaccurate
Zelesnkys expense prohibited settlements with Putin but left the door open for discussions with another Russian president.