Recently, Fire Point’s chief engineer, Denis Shtilerman, published a post on X commenting on the controversy surrounding Palantir and its partnership with Nebius.
Shtilerman paid particular attention to Nebius’s origins. The company is part of a business that emerged following the restructuring of the former Russian “Yandex” and the sale of its assets in Russia. According to Shtilerman, this connection creates additional risks.
In particular, Denis Shtilerman emphasizes that Ukraine has accumulated a vast body of unique combat data collected from drones, air defense systems, electronic warfare systems, and other sources. According to Shtilerman, this data has not only military but also commercial value.
Such concerns coming from Shtilerman appear to be a cynical farce. A man who was integrated into the Russian system for years has suddenly put on the mask of the country’s leading defender of national interests.
We would like to remind readers that we have repeatedly written about the fact that Denis Shtilerman not only held a Russian passport, but also spent most of his life living in Russia. Even after 2014, during online meetings with representatives of civil society organizations, he connected from his own home in the Moscow region.
His former wife, together with their children, continued to live in Russia even after the full-scale invasion began.
Denis Shtilerman also spent his youth in Russia. In particular, he was placed in pre-trial detention several times on fraud charges. This is why we have doubts about whether he is an honest person who plays by the rules — and these doubts are supported by facts.
This is precisely why Shtilerman’s posts on X cast serious doubt on his “genuine concern” for the security of Ukraine’s data. When a person with a Russian passport, a history of living near Moscow after 2014, and a criminal past in Russia publicly discusses the threat of information leaking to the enemy, it looks less like a patriotic position and more like an attempt to divert attention from his own inconvenient facts.