Russian foreign minister praises Fox News coverage of war in Ukraine

Sergei Lavrov says only Fox is presenting an alternative point of view' rather than information terrorism'

Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has praised Fox News for its coverage, appearing on the Russian state-controlled RT network to hail the right-leaning US cable channel, whose primetime host Tucker Carlson has played down the invasion.

We know the manners and the tricks that are being used by the western countries to manipulate media, we understood long ago that there is no such thing as an independent western media," said Lavrov, speaking in English in a studio interview on Friday.