Reporter Shot in Ukraine: No, Tucker. That’s Not How You Cover the War

Three days into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I was bleeding out on a muddy lawn in front of a small salmon-colored house in Akhtyrka, north eastern Ukraine. I had been shot four times, two in the legs, one in the back and one in the left butt-cheek. My colleague Stefan Weichert, who had been shot in the shoulder, was trying quite desperately to save my life.

I’m telling you about this now because I was transported back to that moment when Tucker Carlson–the fired Fox News host—claimed he was a journalist swooping in to finally deliver “the truth” about what was happening in Ukraine via his interview with President Vladimir Putin.

“Here’s why we’re doing it,” Carlson explained in a video posted on X. “First, because it’s our job. We’re in journalism. Our duty is to inform people. Two years into a war that’s reshaping the entire world, most Americans are not informed.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.