Russian President Vladimir Putin said he did not feel he got “full satisfaction” from his viral interview with Tucker Carlson, which was his first interview with a U.S.-based journalist since the start of the war in Ukraine.

The one-on-one interview was released last week and lasted over two hours. In reflecting on the interview, Putin said he was expecting Carlson to act more “aggressively” toward him and ask “so-called sharp questions.”

“I was not just prepared for this. I wanted it because it would give me the opportunity to respond in the same way,” Putin said on Wednesday, according to the New York Post. “Frankly, I did not get full satisfaction from this interview.”

Despite Putin’s lack of satisfaction, the Kremlin said he was taken aback by Carlson’s patience in the interview and for allowing him to talk uninterrupted, something he was not expecting from “a Western journalist.” Putin had been expecting a debate between him and Carlson, but the report had not given him reason “to do what I had been prepared to do.”

“But to what degree it was meaningful at the end of the day, I cannot say,” Putin said.

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The interview Carlson conducted with Putin revealed several major details about the Russian president and Russia, including Putin’s continued determination to win the war in Ukraine and Russia’s growing reliance on China. As of Thursday afternoon, the interview has garnered over 202 million views on X.

Carlson has received some pushback from government officials and the public for conducting the interview, with former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling the interview “ludicrous” and Carlson a “traitor to journalism.” The White House has also spoken out against the interview.