“You can’t say it enough, Ukraine is not a democracy. … In American terms, you would call Ukraine a tyranny.”
What Washington Post found
Democracy experts say Ukraine is a democracy in transition, a "hybrid regime" seeking to break free of Russian influence.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tucker Carlson (Fox news host) made this claim around 22 February 2022. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 February 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “Lacks context”.
Tucker Carlson has 48 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 23 of them false or fake, 14 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- washingtonpost.comhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/24/tucker-carlson-says-ukraine-is-not-dem…
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