Palantir’s Secret Takeover of Ukraine

03.10.2026 | www.kla.tv/42802

The war in Ukraine continues to smolder without any significant gains for either side. “What’s that all about?” you might ask. “Is it really true that neither side in the war has the upper hand? ” “Or is that actually the intention? ”This program examines the question of which parties might have an interest in seeing the war continue. After all, the people who are suffering are certainly not interested in seeing this war drag on. That’s how Kla.TV received a plea for help from a Ukrainian citizen who, for many reasons, finds the war very strange. Among other things, he asks why attacks often target civilian infrastructure and why, above all, the civilian population suffers the consequences of the war. At the same time, he asks why Ukraine’s strategically important military targets have been largely spared and why, apparently, no villas belonging to government officials in Kyiv have been hit by attacks. Ordinary people are among the losers. Nevertheless, there are also parties that profit from the war. Among the winners in this situation are certainly defense technology companies, such as Palantir and Anduril. They can further develop their technologies in data processing and autonomous weapon systems under real-world combat conditions and then bring them subsequently to market. • For example, Palantir CEO Alex Karp was the first executive of a major U.S. technology company to travel to Kyiv to meet with President Zelenskyy after the conflict broke out in June 2022. Since then, the Gotham software has been used in combat and continues to be developed. Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov confirmed that his armed forces are using Palantir software to plan attacks on Russia. Palantir, in collaboration with the Ukrainian Army, has developed an AI-based system to analyze and process intelligence and military reconnaissance data. The data collected from the battlefield is used to train AI models and develop systems capable of detecting targets even under difficult conditions. In addition, the stock value of not only Palantir, but also Anduril has risen by several hundred percent over the past two to three years. • Anduril specializes in the development of autonomous weapons systems and is also testing its products in Ukraine. • Drawing on its experiences from the war in Ukraine, Palantir has further developed the “Maven Smart System.” It is an AI-powered system that automatically analyzes data from military intelligence and identifies targets for attacks. • Through this, in Ukraine, the time between target detection and attack was reduced from hours to minutes. On the Palantir blog, under the heading “What’s Next?”, you can read: “Industry is ready and willing. NATO must continue to create opportunities – both in exercise and event formats…” What could be more suitable than a real battlefield? • In 2023, Ukraine launched “Brave1,” an innovation platform for defense technology. The goal is to support Ukrainian and international companies, startups, and developers in the development of military technologies. “Brave1 Dataroom” enables companies to train and further develop AI models using real-world data from the war in Ukraine. Funding is provided for “innovation competitions” in the following areas: Drone defense, electromagnetic attack and defense systems, autonomous weapon systems. One area of focus, for example, is the automatic detection of Russian drones. The smoldering war in Ukraine keeps the specter of the Russian threat alive, because without that threat, there would be no sense of urgency for high military expenditure. Once a peace agreement is reached, defense budgets would have to be cut, and orders placed with defense contractors would have to be postponed or canceled. This would certainly have a significant negative impact on these companies’ stock prices. The major shareholders in most defense contractors are BlackRock and Vanguard. So it’s no surprise that Friedrich Merz, the former chairman of the supervisory board of BlackRock Germany, is fueling the war in Ukraine rather than de-escalating it. Shortly before the German Armed Forces placed a major order, BlackRock, for example, increased its stake in Rheinmetall. The weapons systems of the future are being developed and tested in Ukraine. However, it’s not just weapons that are being tested; the “Diia” project is also being used to roll out the digital government. Diia is the Ukrainian government’s central digital platform. Citizens can use numerous government services online and manage documents digitally. Since all the information a person generates through their daily activities is available in digital form, it can be analyzed and categorized using AI. Palantir has now made its way into Diia as well. It will be a piece of cake for the government to exercise total control over its citizens. According to Valeriya Ionan, an advisor to Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, the war has actually accelerated digital transformation in the civilian sector rather than slowing it down. Palantir software has become the backbone of the Ukrainian army and seems likely to become that of the Ukrainian state as well. This represents a monopoly on power virtually without precedent. Is Ukraine on its way to becoming a technocratic state, as advocated by Peter Thiel, the co-founder and co-owner of Palantir? In the program “The File: Peter Thiel and Palantir” [https://www.kla.tv/42237], it is explained how Palantir, the technology company co-founded by Peter Thiel, provides systems that lay the technical groundwork for an increasingly comprehensive and potentially totalitarian surveillance state. But Ukraine is not the only country on its way to becoming a technocratic state. Just as the Russian government fully supported the entire agenda during the COVID-19 crisis – from the Sputnik vaccine, which caused numerous vaccine adverse reactions, to the sanctions – the Kremlin is pulling out all the stops in the war in Ukraine as well. According to the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies (IEEE) of the Spanish Ministry of Defense, the war in Ukraine is accelerating the race for technological innovation and making artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly crucial to future military supremacy. Such an armed conflict is like a laboratory where major powers and companies in the industry can continuously train and test AI systems for a wide range of capabilities, functionalities, and applications: Moscow provides Beijing with operational information on its expertise in this war and, most particularly, on AI, while China cooperates with Russia for hightech military development. That is according to the report by the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies. According to publicly available information, there is as yet no single company in Russia that is an exact counterpart to Palantir. Instead, there are several systems and companies that cover different aspects of what Palantir offers. For example, the Russian defense contractor Rostec develops, among other things, electronics, software, AI, drones, and military systems. The company NtechLab, for its part, specializes in AI-based video analysis, facial recognition, as well as the detection of vehicles and license plates. Russia, too, has extensive digital surveillance and analysis systems; however, these are not concentrated within a single corporation but are distributed among various government and government-affiliated entities. The Russian counterpart to the Ukrainian digital platform “Diia” is primarily the government portal “Gosuslugi,” including its mobile app. Just as Diia is driving the development of the digital government in Ukraine, Gosuslugi plays a comparably key role in the digitization of the Russian government. In Russia, too, those who suffer the most are the ones who have no interest in a prolonged war: the people. While Ukrainian citizens report Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure, Russian citizens also complain about Ukrainian attacks on civilians. According to an article in Anti-Spiegel, the Ukrainian army is said to have attacked at least 24 civilian buses with drones in July 2026 alone. Since mid-July 2026, warehouses and logistics centers belonging to the Russian online retailer Wildberries have also been repeatedly hit by Ukrainian drone attacks. Wildberries is often referred to as the “Russian Amazon.” All of this just keeps adding fuel to the fire. It’s hard to shake the impression that governments are all in this together, working to prolong the war while simultaneously pushing forward the establishment of a digital, totalitarian state in their own countries. This seems to be the real reason why people are still dying every day and why all efforts toward peace come to nothing. That is why it is important to stay alert and recognize the common threads behind these warmongers and AI developments.

from Br. / mib./dd.

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Alex Karp meets Selenskyj in June 2022 https://time.com/6691662/ai-ukraine-war-palantir/
Selenskyj meets Palantir CEO – Ukraine expands use of AI in war https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-meets-palantir-ceo-ukraine-expands-use-ai-war-2026-05-12/
(geht nur mit Abo) Palantir and Anduril share prices https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ANIN.PVT/
https://www.finanzen.ch/aktien/palantir-aktie
Brave1 website https://brave1.gov.ua/en
There are coincidences: BlackRock increases shares in Rheinmetall – then a bis order comes https://www.kettner-edelmetalle.de/news/zufalle-gibts-blackrock-erhoht-rheinmetall-anteile-dann-kommt-grossauftrag-21-06-2024
Palantir-based dashboards in schools and military systems https://digitalstate.gov.ua/news/govtech/mykhaylo-fedorov-vyznachyv-kliuchovi-priorytety-v-noviy-posadi-oboronni-innovatsiyi-ai-osvita-ta-tsyfrove-upravlinnia
The File: Peter Thiel and Palantir https://www.kla.tv/44237
Geostrategic analysis by the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies (IEEE) of the Spanish Ministry of Defense https://www.defensa.gob.es/documents/2073105/2278118/la_inteligencia_artificial_y_la_guerra_de_ucrania_2024_dieeea81_eng.pdf/4c19e2e7-da09-2d81-7aad-04c91079aade
How Russia is reshaping the command and control of AI-enabled warfare https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-russia-reshaping-command-and-control-ai-enabled-warfare
Ukraine is specifically targeting civilian buses https://anti-spiegel.ru/2026/die-ukraine-macht-gezielt-jagd-auf-zivile-busse-bus-schebekino/
Repeating targeting of Wildberries: Why is Ukriane attacking the online giant? https://de.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/03/wildberries-ukraine-lieferkette-russische-drohnen