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Ukraine pays with blood, and someone is building a business on it: Al Jazeera on Palantir business partner’s access to Ukrainian combat data
While Ukrainian servicemembers risk their lives at the front every day, Ukraine’s unique combat experience is becoming an extremely valuable resource for American tech corporations.
In January 2026 the Ministry of Defense under the leadership of Mykhailo Fedorov launched a joint platform with Palantir, Brave1 Dataroom, to train military AI on real combat data.
And in 1 September Fedorov announced the creation of his own defense-technology company, whose first key investor will be Palantir CEO Alex Karp. Incidentally, that same month Palantir signed a strategic partnership with Nebius — a company linked to Arkady Volozh, co-founder of the Russian company Yandex.
Al Jazeera highlights the risks arising from the opaque terms of cooperation with the American corporation. One of these risks is dependency on a private military software provider, which creates the danger that critically important systems could fall under the sway of the company’s commercial decisions. Concerns about strategic dependency were one reason France and the German military rejected the company’s products.
In Ukraine, cooperation with Palantir is openly criticized by representatives of the defense sector. In particular, serviceman Valeriy Markus emphasized that Ukraine is paying with blood for data that someone else can turn into capital, international influence, and big money.
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