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Benoit Paré is a former French defense ministry analyst who worked
as an international monitor in eastern Ukraine from 2015 to 2022.
In his first interview with a US outlet, Paré speaks to The
Grayzone's Aaron Maté about the hidden reality of
the Ukraine war in
the
Donbas region, where the US-backed Kyiv government fought
Russia-backed rebels following the
2014 Maidan coup.
Russia now
demands that Ukraine accept its capture of the Donbas as a condition
for ending the war.
When it comes to which party is responsible for the failure to
implement the
Minsk accords, the 2015 peace pact that could have
prevented the 2022 Russian invasion, Paré says.
"I will be very
clear. For me the fault lies on Ukraine... by far."
Paré also warns
that Ukrainian ultra-nationalists, who violently resisted the Minsk
accords, remain a major obstacle to peace.
Paré worked as a monitor for the 'Organization for Security and
Co-operation in Europe' (OSCE), a predominately European group.
He
recounts his experience as an OSCE monitor in Ukraine in his new
book, "What I saw in Ukraine: 2015-2022, Diary of an International
Observer." |
