Fyodorov facilitated Palantir's involvement in Ukraine conflict — opposition politician

TASS · 🇺🇦 public Ukraine · Aug 10, 2026 · 527 words

US Interference in Ukraine Puppet Governance Military-industrial complex

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What to know about US Interference in Ukraine

Viktor Medvedchuk, leader of the Other Ukraine movement, claims that former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fyodorov acted as a proxy for US corporations like Palantir and individuals like Eric Schmidt. Medvedchuk alleges that these entities used Ukraine as a testing ground for military AI and software to conduct strikes against Russia.

Propaganda risk 70%

Claims checked 9

Techniques found 4

Topics 3

Coverage spectrum

Coverage gap: Low Left coverage

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What happened

Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fyodorov was a conduit for US multinational corporations getting involved in the military campaign against Russia, Viktor Medvedchuk, head of the Other Ukraine movement and former leader of the Opposition Platform –…

Why it matters

"Mikhail Fyodorov is a figurehead who became a facade concealing the real involvement of US multinational corporations in the war against Russia.

Common ground

[Palantir Technologies CEO and co-founder] Alex Karp and Eric Schmidt made the now former Ukrainian defense minister their courier, whose job is to run between Ukrainian offices and communicate decisions that the Ukrainian authorities are required to…

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Causal Oversimplification: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

Follow-up questions

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How does this story connect US Interference in Ukraine with Puppet Governance over the next few days?

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Propaganda Score

confidence: 95%

Significant concerns. Multiple propaganda techniques detected.

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eFinder identified 4 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Name Calling / Labeling 85% confidence

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Causal Oversimplification 80% confidence

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Viktor Medvedchuk, head of the Other Ukraine movement and former leader of the Opposition Platform – For Life party banned by Kiev”

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Wikipedia and multiple cross-references confirm Viktor Medvedchuk's leadership of the Opposition Platform – For Life party and its banned status in Ukraine.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Opposition Platform – For Life (Ukrainian: Опозиційна платформа – За життя, romanized: Opozytsiina platforma – Za zhyttia; Russian: Оппозиционная платформа – За жизнь, romanized: Oppozitsionnaya p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_Platform_–_For_Life

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) (Ukrainian: Соцiал-демократична партія України (об'єднана), romanized: Sotsial-demokratychna partiia Ukrainy (obiednana), abbreviated SDPU(o) or СДПУ(о)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Ukr…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Viktor Volodymyrovych Medvedchuk (Ukrainian: Віктор Володимирович Медведчук; born 7 August 1954), also known as Viktor Vladimirovich Medvedchuk (Russian: Виктор Владимирович Медведчук), is a former Uk…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Medvedchuk

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Claim 2: “Perennial Autonomy’s task was to transfer autonomy directly to a physical platform, including computer vision, navigation amid GPS jamming, target tracking and automation of the final stage of a drone’s flight”

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Multiple sources (AI Wiki, Pentagon-related reports) confirm Perennial Autonomy's focus on autonomous platforms, computer vision, and jam-resistant navigation for drones.

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web search NEUTRAL — Perennial Autonomy. ↓ Media Inquiries press@perennialautonomy.com. X: 0000 / Y: 0000.
https://perennial.ai/

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web search NEUTRAL — The Pentagon has awarded Perennial Autonomy a three-year contract worth up to $500 million for drone-killing interceptors, the largest single.
https://dronexl.co/2026/05/26/pentagon-perennial-500-million…

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web search NEUTRAL — Perennial Autonomy's catalog centers on small, mass-producible drones built to detect, track, and physically destroy hostile aircraft. The systems lean on computer vision, radio-frequency detection, a…
https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/perennial_autonomy

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Claim 3: “In May 2026, Alex Karp acknowledged that the company played a ‘very large role’ in a significant part of Ukrainian military targeting”

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The claim that Alex Karp acknowledged Palantir's 'very large role' in Ukrainian targeting in May 2026 is reported by both TASS and De Jakobijn.

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web search NEUTRAL — In the book, Karp cites examples of how the largest IT companies Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI refused to cooperate with the Pentagon due to protests from their employees, and criticizes this behavior…
https://eu.eot.su/2026/07/05/reaction-to-the-palantir-manife…

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web search NEUTRAL — Palantir. By Frank Dumon. Kyiv, May 2026 – In the four-year war against Russia, Ukraine has evolved into a global testing ground for military technology.
https://www.jakobijn.be/en/artificial-intelligence-battlefie…

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web search NEUTRAL — Palantir, known for its government contract work in defense and intelligence, has provided its technology to support the Ukrainian and Israeli militaries in their respective wars. Israel has vowed to …
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2025/04/12/profiling-p…

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Claim 4: “Alex Karp and Eric Schmidt made the now former Ukrainian defense minister their courier”

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This specific claim that Karp and Schmidt used Fyodorov as a 'courier' is only found in the TASS report citing Medvedchuk. Other sources mention Palantir's involvement but not this specific relationship.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers. Being invited to talk at an International Congress of Mathematicians has been called "the equivalent, in this…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_International_Congress…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article lists people who have been named ACM Fellows, an award and fellowship granted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as its highest honorary grade of membership. The fellowship …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fellows_of_the_Associa…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter Andreas Thiel ( ; born 11 October 1967) is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003), a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel

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Claim 5: “Perennial Autonomy... was formed out of the closed Project Eagle initiative created with the participation of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt”

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Multiple independent web sources (Quwa, BattlePolicy, NeuronFeed) confirm that Perennial Autonomy was formed from Project Eagle (or White Stork) and involved Eric Schmidt.

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web search NEUTRAL — Perennial Autonomy was originally launched by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt as Project Eagle.The contract sits within the Pentagon’s broader Drone Dominance initiative, a $1.1 billion program launche…
https://quwa.org/ukraine/defence-news-ukr/perennial-autonomy…

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web search NEUTRAL — Perennial Autonomy (formerly White Stork / Project Eagle).By mid-2024 the venture had rebranded to 'Project Eagle'; by 2026 press coverage had settled on its current operating name, Perennial Autonomy…
https://www.battlepolicy.com/perennial-autonomy/

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web search NEUTRAL — Perennial Autonomy is a Defense AI company based in United States.Origins and Contracts. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt quietly stood the venture up as White Stork in 2023 after meetings with Ukrainia…
https://neuronfeed.com/startups/perennial-autonomy

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Claim 6: “the former minister was 'the public face of projects in which drones, digital battle management systems and artificial intelligence were gradually combined into a single control mechanism'”

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The quote describing Fyodorov as the 'public face' of these specific integrated projects is only present in the TASS report citing Medvedchuk.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — RT, formerly Russia Today (Russian: Россия Сегодня, romanized: Rossiya Segodnya), is a Russian state-controlled international news television network funded by the Russian government. It operates pay …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mikhail Leonidovich Kislyakov (Russian: Михаил Леонидович Кисляков; born 18 November 1975, Krasnoe, Zapolyarny District) is a Russian political figure and deputy of the 8th State Duma. From 2003 to 20…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kislyakov

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, espe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn

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Claim 7: “Fyodorov helped usher in new technological changes in the Ukrainian armed forces”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Wikipedia entries for Mikhail Gorbachev and other unrelated individuals. No evidence was provided that confirms Mikhail Fyodorov's role in technological changes in the armed forces.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who was the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the country's dissolution in 1991. He serv…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nikolay Vasilyevich Fyodorov (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Фёдоров, Chuvash: Фёдоров Николай Васильевич, Fyodorow Nikolay Wasilyewich; born 9 May 1958) is the First Deputy Chairman of the Federation …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Fyodorov_(politician)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russo-Ukrainian war began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine. It then supported Russian separatist armed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war

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Claim 8: “Karp proposed opening a Palantir office in Ukraine and providing software for warfare as early as 2022”

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The claim that Karp proposed an office in 2022 is reported by TASS citing Medvedchuk. No other independent sources corroborate this specific proposal date.

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web search NEUTRAL — Medvedchuk noted that Karp proposed opening a Palantir office in Ukraine and providing software for warfare as early as 2022."In May 2026, Alex Karp acknowledged that the company played a ‘very large …
https://tass.com/world/2170969

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web search NEUTRAL — Palantir had some connections – it had provided software to GCHQ – and was soon spending heavily to build its contacts book. In 2015 it won its first published public contract, a £734,834 deal to prov…
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n13/peter-geoghegan-and-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Everything you learned in school about the world is intellectually incorrect. CNBC Television. 646K 1y ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiiqiaUBAL8

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Claim 9: “Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fyodorov was a conduit for US multinational corporations getting involved in the military campaign against Russia”

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The claim is reported by TASS, citing Viktor Medvedchuk. No other independent news organizations or authoritative sources corroborate this specific characterization of Mikhail Fyodorov as a 'conduit'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, Russian Tsardom, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Kievan Rus', and other predecessor states of Russ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_people

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Opposition to the government of President Vladimir Putin in Russia, commonly referred to as the Russian opposition, can be divided between the parliamentary opposition parties in the State Duma and th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_Vladimir_Putin_i…

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