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SkyFall, Konotopskyi and the defense budget: how paid PR conceals billion-dollar schemes
A hyped-up story is spreading across Telegram channels claiming that Japan’s Minister of Defense Koizumi supposedly signed a contract to purchase P1-SUN interceptor drones from the company #SkyFall. 🤷♂️In reality, this publication resembles another paid piece from the founder of #Ajax Systems, Oleksandr #Конотопський, intended to distract attention from real problems.
Instead of high-tech solutions, Ukraine and foreign partners are being offered outdated technologies built from Chinese components that simply cannot catch up to the enemy’s jet-powered UAVs and are already gathering dust by the ton in warehouses.
By the way, we have long been investigating SkyFall Industries in detail and have already established that this defense entity is effectively controlled by the founder of Ajax Systems, Oleksandr Konotopskyi, who, through a network of affiliated companies, routed production of the “Vampire” and P1-SUN UAVs through himself, monopolizing participation in state defense procurement.
At the same time, information about the beneficiaries and the legal structure of SkyFall Industries is hidden in the state registers. The company increased production from 50 000 units in 2025 to the declared 100 000 in 2026. ❗️At drone prices for the “Vampire” of up to 10 000–20 000 US dollars, potential revenue reaches 1 billion dollars, which equals almost the entire annual state budget for UAVs.
Production and delivery occur through closed procedures without any competition or transparent pricing. In addition, the management of SkyFall Industries, acting in collusion with former Defense Minister Mykhailo #Федоров, successfully routed financial flows through offshore structures in Cyprus and the UAE (DMCC).
✅We have already achieved the opening of a criminal case: the Obolon Police Department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kyiv has entered information into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations under No. 12026100050001492 under part 1 of article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine regarding abuse of power by officials and unlawful activities of Konotopskyi’s structures.
Our position remains unchanged: no paid publications will cover up the facts, so we continue legal pressure to dismantle this scheme and hold all those responsible to account.
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Materials on the topic:
▫️Konotopskyi’s network profits hundreds of billions from defense: billions in imports, pass-throughs and the Russian trace of Ajax Systems
▫️How Fedorov’s entourage and Ajax Systems seized state UAV procurement worth tens of billions of hryvnias
▫️Why the multimillionaire from the list #Forbes Oleksandr #Конотопський, the security systems #Ajax and the drones #SkyFall are Mykhailo #Федоров’s main wallet?
▫️How Fedorov’s lobbying turned into hundreds of millions in state contracts for Konotopskyi’s company
▫️Oleksandr Konotopskyi and his Ajax Systems: traces of not only the products but the businessman himself were found in the Russian Federation
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