Fire Point declares information about company in UP's article about Mindich tapes to be false and asks NABU to confirm existence of tapes

Fire Point, a Ukrainian developer and manufacturer of cruise missiles and drones, states that the information published in Ukrainska Pravda regarding the “Mindich tapes” and the receipt of funds by the company, and is asking the National Anti-Corruption Bureau to confirm that the information reported by Ukrainska Pravda matches the originals of the “tapes” from the criminal case involving Mindich, and if so, to provide the company with the originals of these materials.

This is stated in Fire Point’s appeal to the NABU, which was published on X by the company’s owner, Denys Shtilerman.

The company notes that the publication cites clearly inflated amounts of funds received by the company, which are discussed by the participants in the recordings.

In particular, the publication states that the company was allocated UAH 311 billion, which is completely untrue, since Fire Point LLC’s revenue for 2025 amounted to UAH 29.324 billion —more than 10 times less than what was stated in the publications.

The company emphasizes that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the information in question may have been fabricated or distorted, and that an expert investigation is necessary to confirm its authenticity.

“The dissemination of such inaccurate information regarding the activities of FIRE POINT LLC, as one of the largest defense companies in Ukraine, has extremely negative consequences for both the company and the country’s defense capabilities as a whole, especially given that this information has not been properly verified and is of a manipulative nature...," the statement reads.

Back in the summer of 2025, Fire Point independently approached Deloitte, a member of the “Big Four” audit firms, to conduct an audit of agreed-upon procedures for the 2023–2024 period. Based on the results of this audit, Deloitte prepared a report confirming the absence of violations regarding compliance with legal requirements concerning the maximum markup on the cost of goods.

“At the same time, such public discrediting, without any official claims being filed by law enforcement or regulatory authorities, has a very negative impact on the company’s reputation and its ability to execute government contracts efficiently and promptly, and also deprives our company of the right to effective defense and comprehensive communication regarding such negative information,” the company notes.

It emphasizes that Timur Mindich is not and has never been the owner or ultimate beneficiary of Fire Point, and that any possible activities of the latter regarding the company are solely the initiative and responsibility of those individuals who may appear in the recordings.

Fire Point officially requests that NABU inform the company whether there are transcripts or other evidence in the proceedings under investigation by the agency whose content is identical (the same) to the conversations published by UP journalist Mykhailo Tkach, and if so, to provide these recordings for expert analysis.

The company also asks whether NABU granted permission to disseminate these materials, and if not, whether an investigation has been opened regarding the disclosure of pre-trial investigation materials.

Fire Point emphasizes that if the information published by Mykhailo Tkach is identical (conformant) to the evidence contained in the materials of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, then this evidence has already been made public, it cannot constitute a secret of the pre-trial investigation, and this cannot be a formal basis for the company’s refusal to provide such data.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, Mykhailo Tkach, a journalist for Ukrainska Pravda, published a report in which he read aloud information allegedly contained on tapes of conversations with Timur Mindich, a businessman wanted by the NABU. In the recording, he allegedly discussed with Rustem Umerov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine, the sale of a stake in Fire Point, a manufacturer of drones and missiles.