The EU sanctions Colonel Jacques Baud (rtd), former Swiss intelligence officer, for his analysis of the Ukraine War

The EU has sanctioned Colonel Jacques Baud, a former Swiss intelligence officer, for publishing books, writing articles and giving interviews on the origins of the Ukraine war and the trajectory of that military conflict on the grounds that it amounts to 'Russian propaganda'.

He has had his assets frozen and a travel ban imposed.

Colonel Baud reacted with the following statement:

"Yes, I was sanctioned for 'Russian propaganda.' The fact that I never use Russian material for my books, but exclusively Ukrainian and Western information and that I have consequently refused invitations from Russian media, I still remain a 'Russian propagandist'!

As I indicated in my books, my work does not focus on who is good and who is bad, but on how the media poorly reflect the realities on the ground. I wanted to show that one can better understand the conflict even without Russian information. The idea is that the way one understands a crisis defines the way to resolve it!

I hadn't realised how right I was."
-Oberst Jacques Baud, rtd.

Baud has consistently provided evidenced-based analysis of the conflict which the EU has played a major role in fomenting and perpetuating at great cost to Ukraine and the EU itself.

It is a disgraceful act redolent of the sort of actions typified by the "authoritarian" and "totalitarian" regimes to which the EU professes to be opposed.

It is in effect acting as an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth’.

© Adeyinka Makinde (2025).

Adeyinka Makinde is a writer based in London, England.