Julius Strauss, a veteran war correspondent who also lectures for MCC in Budapest, has covered Ukraine for more than 20 years. Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022, he has travelled to Ukraine more than half a dozen times, reporting for The Spectator and his own substack, Back to the Front. His travels have taken him to Lviv, Odessa, Kyiv and east to the frontlines of Kharkiv and the Donbas. Julius will be talking about what he has learned in his time reporting in Ukraine and share his conviction that the war is now coming to a critical phase as Kyiv's forces lose ground and a new US president seeks to impose peace from the outside. 

Julius Strauss served for 15 years as a war correspondent. From 1996 to 2000 he was a correspondent for The Daily Telegraph in the Balkans, worked in Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq from 2000 to 2004, and as a Moscow correspondent from 2002 to 2005. He was also present at the 2004 Beslan school siege. In 2006, he gave up journalism and moved to the Canadian wilderness, working as a wildlife activist and running a bear lodge. In the last years he has returned to try and make sense of the war in Ukraine, and what is happening in Russia and the Balkans. 

The moderator of the event will be István Péter, International Relations Coordinator at MCC. 

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