About "Fire Point and Mindich"
Fire Point designer Denys Shtilerman has, in recent days, been so adamant in denying that Mindich has any ties to the company that is absorbing the lion’s share of Ukraine’s entire drone budget that he went as far as re-registering the firm in his own name. And along the way, he said so much that it only made things worse.
First, he admitted that Ihor Fursenko was officially employed at Fire Point as an administrator. This is the same Roshyk who, on the Mindich tapes, complained that it was physically hard for him to carry $1.6 million. It looks as though within the group, he was responsible for cash-out operations and laundering money. And at Fire Point, he had a mobilisation exemption.
Second, Shtilerman admitted that his personal banker is Mykhailo Tsukerman, the brother of Oleksandr Tsukerman, known from the tapes as Shugerman. He, too, handled illegal money for Mindich and also fled to Israel before being detained by NABU. Shtilerman himself appears on the tapes as Elektronik. He acknowledges that he has known Oleksandr Tsukerman for a very long time; essentially, they come from the same milieu.
Third. For many years, Shtilerman held Russian citizenship; until recently, he even had a legal business there. Meaning he was officially on every FSB radar. His ex-wife and two children were still in Moscow, also no secret to Putin’s secuty services, since it’s all traceable through their own registries. And so the former family turned out to be so dear to Shtilerman that he decided to get them out of there. But not when he started designing drones and missiles at the start of the invasion. Only in the summer of 2025, when Mindichgate began to stink. And the extraction of the family was handled by the above-mentioned Roshyk, Fursenko, Fire Point’s administrator and Mindich’s cash-out man.
Fourth, Shtilerman himself called himself the designer of the "Flamingo" missile. This is the very missile that Zelenskyy and Fire Point have been hyping since summer, that it would fly 3,000 kilometers with a ton of explosives and wipe out ruscists plants better than Tomahawks. But it didn’t fly, didn’t go into serial production, and rumors from the front say it’s slow crap that the ruscists shoot down with Pantsirs. And smashing Rashist refineries to the level we need with drones didn’t work either, because drones carry too little explosive and can’t deliver the scale of destruction we needed at those plants. As a result, Putin has not only covered the fuel deficit in Russia, he is exporting it now. Because we had nothing to finish those plants off with.
Bohdan Miroshnychenko, editor-in-chief of Oboronka, added confirmation. Yesterday, he said that a General Staff representative attended Fire Point’s meeting with journalists and "admitted that Flamingo is not some mysterious game-changer, but simply an experimental weapon that HAS NOT YET PROVEN its effectiveness."
So, from Fire Point, we did not get the one thing that could have saved us from today’s situation, where Zelenskyy is no longer talking about three thousand missiles but about a choice between dignity and a brutal winter. Instead of us peering into Trump’s and Putin’s mouths on the eve of a winter wrecking of our energy sector and a likely collapse. He would have been brought to his knees back in the summer by a fuel shortage for his tanks. And we would already be talking about a ceasefire from that position. But as the General Staff man confirmed, the flamindiches (pun on "Flamingo" and "Mindich," - ed.) never took off.
And then it hit me. So the chief designer at Fire Point was making a crappy missile while knowing his family was on FSB radars and could be arrested at any moment. How much could that fear have controlled a person on whom, no joke, a game-changer in the war depended? Under which statute should the SBU be checking enemy ties of people whom Zelenskyy appointed as key war fixers? How much stronger is this suspicion than the intent of a NABU detective’s father to sell industrial hemp to Uzbekistan, which the Chekists called Dagestan and have already kept him in a cell for almost four months?
I’ll repeat it once more. By funneling gigantic money into one firm, we got the best of what Fire Point could do, not what we could have had from everyone else. And of course, now there is nobody to ask what might have been. Because who would be stupid enough to keep developing deep strikes knowing that Zelenskyy’s people built a cash desk only for their buddies?
And in light of the first three points, please treat the question "is Mindich the owner of Fire Point" as purely rhetorical. Some guys walked in off the street to the General Staff, showed a cool little model, everyone liked it and here you go, tens of billions from the President’s Office))))
No, friends, that’s not how it works. And money from firms like these, as we can see, is not siphoned off according to shares in authorized capital. That’s b#llshit for Pronin so he can later wriggle out of responsibility for Financial Monitoring’s inaction.
Yurii Nikolov
