Media personality Tucker Carlson, an influential ally of President-elect Donald Trump, said he’d interviewed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, amid speculation over the incoming US administration’s plans to rapidly end the war in Ukraine.

The right-wing news personality said the sit-down was part of his effort to provide his audience with the "Russian perspective."

Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson has returned to Russia, sharing in a video that he that he made his way back to the country to interview Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov about the ongoing war in Ukraine. “We are closer to nuclear war than in any time in history,” Carlson said in a new video posted to X, formerly Twitter.