Charlie Hancock

Feb 19, 2025 | charliehancock.substack.com | Charlie Hancock

“Are you going to ask the Minister a question?” asked the cameraman to my right. “Hopefully,” I said, checking the list of questions in my notebook. I had prepared a dozen that would work for any European or military leader I happened to talk to and was working out how to tailor them to each interviewee. “That’s good,” he said in a thick German accent.

Feb 17, 2025 | themoscowtimes.com | Charlie Hancock

As the location for the annual Security Conference, Munich took on a degree of irony before political and military leaders assembled in the city’s grand center. In 1938, the leaders of Britain and France agreed to a deal in Munich that signed Czechoslovakia over to Nazi Germany in the futile hope of appeasing Adolf Hitler and averting a wider European war.

Feb 16, 2025 | themoscowtimes.com | Charlie Hancock

MUNICH – Finnish President Alexander Stubb on Saturday called on Europe to pressure Washington to ensure that Ukraine was in as strong a position as possible before peace talks with Moscow could begin.

Feb 14, 2025 | themoscowtimes.com | Charlie Hancock

MUNICH — The European Union’s top diplomat said that any talks between the United States and Russia were now “obsolete” following a drone strike at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant that Kyiv blamed on Moscow. “It clearly shows that [the Russians] don't want peace,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told journalists on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

Feb 12, 2025 | themoscowtimes.com | Charlie Hancock |Pyotr Kozlov

BRUSSELS – U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said Washington would not send peacekeepers to Ukraine as part of post-war security guarantees for Kyiv and dismissed the goal of restoring Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders as “unrealistic.” In a speech where he stressed that the U.S. remained committed to NATO but would “no longer tolerate” European alliance members depending on Washington for security, Hegseth told the Ukraine Defense Contact Group that the U.S.’s priority was now...