Fire Point Is Gone. Just… Gone.
In the summer of 2025, the Ukrainian company Fire Point suddenly burst into the media spotlight alongside its cruise missile, “Flamingo.” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy personally presented the missile, calling it one of the most successful developments, capable of striking targets up to 3,000 kilometers away.
Soon after, however, uncomfortable details began to surface.
The New York Times reported that before Russia’s full-scale invasion, the company had operated as a casting agency for film and television productions. Later, information emerged linking Fire Point to a figure known by the nickname “Ryoshyk,” a key suspect in a major NABU corruption investigation, who reportedly received mobilization exemption (“reservation”) through Fire Point LLC.
There were also claims that Timur Mindich, a fugitive businessman and now a top suspect in a large-scale energy sector corruption case, had at one point allegedly attempted to become a co-owner of Fire Point.
And then, at a certain moment — bang — all public data about the “successful defense company” vanished from search platforms that aggregate information from state registries.
This disappearance was confirmed by:
- YouControl, whose analytics system recorded that on December 12 the Ministry of Defense demanded the removal of information about Fire Point LLC;
- Opendatabot, where only a trace of the company’s owner, Denys Shtilerman, remains;
- and Clarity Project, a public procurement analytics platform, where Fire Point’s data also disappeared.
Fire Point did not just go quiet.
It effectively ceased to exist in public records.
Jorge Jorge
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