“Flamingo” didn’t take off: how Fire Point owner Denys Shtilerman exposed Mindich’s corruption schemes and the failure of the defense project

Following high-profile revelations, Fire Point constructor Denys Shtilerman is reportedly attempting to erase traces and references to his ties with Mindich, a central figure in schemes involving the allocation of billion-dollar drone budgets.

Inconvenient facts are disappearing from the information space, while Shtilerman himself publicly gets confused in explanations, only confirming his involvement in these connections.

We, in turn, publish an investigation with details, facts, and testimonies that they are trying to erase — because it is they that show the real role of the participants in this scheme.

Constructor of «Fire Point» Denys Shtilerman has been denying so strongly in recent days that Mindich has nothing to do with the company that is mastering the lion’s share of Ukraine’s entire drone budget that he personally rewrote this company to himself. And along the way, he said so much that it only got worse.

First, he admitted that Igor Fursenko officially worked as an administrator in «Fire Point». This is the same «Ryoshyk» who, on Mindich’s tapes, complained that it was physically hard for him to carry $1.6 million. It looks like in the group he was involved in cashing out and legalizing money. And in «Fire Point» he had a deferment from mobilization.

Second, Shtilerman admitted that his personal banker is Mykhaylo Tsukerman – the native brother of Oleksandr Tsukerman, known from the tapes as «Sugarman». And who also dealt with illegal money in Mindich’s circle, and also fled to Israel before NABU’s arrest. Shtilerman himself also appears on the tapes as «Electronik». He admits that he has known Oleksandr Tsukerman for a very long time; essentially, they are representatives of the same environment.

Third. Shtilerman held Russian citizenship for many years; until recently, he even had legal business there. That is, he was officially on all FSB radars. And in Moscow, he still has his ex-wife with two children. Which is also no secret to Putin’s special services, because it can be checked through their own registries. So, his 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 beginning of the invasion. But only in the summer of 2025, when the “Mindichgate” smelled. And the evacuation of the family from there was handled by the aforementioned «Ryoshik» Fursenko, administrator of «Fire Point» and Mindich’s “casher.”

Fourth, Shtilerman himself called himself the constructor of the «Flamingo» missile. This is the same missile that Zelenskyy and «Fire Point» have been advertising to us since the summer, saying it would fly 3000 kilometers with a ton of explosives and destroy rashist factories better than «Tomahawks». But it didn’t fly, didn’t go into serial production; from the front, there are rumors that it’s slow shit that rashists shoot down with “Pantsirs.” And it didn’t succeed in destroying rashist oil refineries to the level we need with drones, because drones carry little explosives and cannot inflict the necessary level of damage on factories. As a result, Putin has not only extinguished the fuel shortage in Russia but is also exporting it. Because we had nothing to finish off those factories with.

Confirmation of this was added by Bohdan Miroshnychenko, the chief editor of «Oboronka». He reported yesterday that at the «Fire Point» meeting with journalists, there was a General Staff representative who «admitted that “Flamingo” is not some mysterious game-changer, but just experimental weapons that HAVE NOT YET PROVEN its effectiveness».

That is, from «Fire Point», we did not get the one thing that could have saved us from the current situation, when Zelenskyy is already talking not about three thousand missiles, but about a choice between dignity and a harsh winter. And we could have not been peering into the mouths of Trump and Putin before the winter destruction of our energy sector and probable collapse. And he would have been bent over in the summer due to a fuel shortage for tanks. And from this position, we would have been talking about a truce. But, as the General Staff officer confirmed, the “Flamindichis” did not take off.

And it hit me here. That is, the chief constructor of «Fire Point» was making a shitty missile, knowing that his family is on FSB radars and could be arrested at any moment. To what extent could this fear control a person from whom, no joke, the game-changer in the war depended? Under which SSU article should they check connections with the enemy in people whom Zelenskyy appointed as key “decision-makers” in the war? How much stronger is this suspicion than the intention of the NABU detective’s father to sell technical hemp to Uzbekistan, which the Chekists called Dagestan, and they put him in a cell for almost four months already?

I’ll repeat once again. As a result of channeling huge money into one company, we got the best that «Fire Point» could do, and not what we could have had from all the others. And, of course, now there’s no one to ask what could have been if. Because who would be stupid enough to continue developing deep strikes knowing that Zelenskyy built the cash register only for his buddies?

And given the first three points, please consider the question «is Mindich the owner of «Fire Point»» purely rhetorical. Guys came from the street to the General Staff, showed a cool model, everyone liked it, and here you go – tens of billions from the OP.

No, friends, that’s not how it works. And the money from such companies, as we see, is withdrawn not according to shares in the statutory capital. That’s bullshit for Pronin so he can later excuse the inaction of the Financial Monitoring.