Benoît Paré – Ukraine : The Great Manipulation
Publisher: Benoît Paré
Publication date: December 19, 2025
Language: English
Print length: 449 pages
ISBN-10: 2959860144
ISBN-13: 978-2959860140
Following “What I Saw in Ukraine,” Benoît Paré offers a compilation of all his press articles concerning Ukraine, written under a pseudonym and updated when relevant.
Covering the period from the start of the Russian “special military operation” until the end of 2024, the author examines the major events of the conflict, adopting, as far as possible, the methods of a non-partisan observer.
The knowledge accumulated by his privileged access to the Ukrainian theater up until February 2022 allowed him to develop a contextualized analysis that few journalists could offer, sometimes leading him to write more politically engaged pieces.
The result is an uncompromising analysis of Ukraine’s strategy of manipulating international opinion—a country at war that seems to have set no limits for itself, with the active and unconditional support of the Western political and media establishment.
Read also: What I Saw In Ukraine – 2015-2022 – Diary of an International Observer – Benoît Paré
BENOIT PARÉ
Benoît Paré is a former French Army reserve officer, analyst at the Ministry of Defence, and long-time international official. He was deployed eight times to crisis zones: the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Pakistan, as well as – for many years – to Ukraine.
From 2015 to 2022, he worked as an unarmed civilian observer for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in the Donbas, making him one of the very few Western observers deployed for extended periods on both sides of the contact line. Due to what he perceived as a systematic pro-Ukrainian bias of the mission, he eventually resigned.
In 2025, he published his first book “Ce que j’ai vu en Ukraine: 2015–2022 – Journal d’un observateur international” (Self-published, TheBookEdition), in which, based on his diary entries, he unsparingly documents the OSCE’s one-sided reporting, the sabotage of the Minsk agreements by Ukraine, and the predominantly Ukrainian responsibility for civilian casualties in the Donbas.
Paré is highly regarded in sovereigntist and war-critical circles (Front Populaire, TV Libertés, Neutrality Studies, France Soir) and is considered one of the most authentic Western witness voices on the Donbas war before 2022.
Details on Benoît Paré’s OSCE Missions in Ukraine (2015–2022)
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) was deployed on 21 March 2014 and operated until 31 March 2022 (terminated by a Russian veto against the mandate renewal). It comprised up to 1,300 unarmed international observers tasked with monitoring the ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons, the humanitarian situation, and human rights across the Donbas, with a special focus on the approximately 500 km-long contact line.
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