On May 12, Defense Minister Mikhaylo Fedorov and President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp in Kyiv. Fedorov's brief formula after the meeting — "mathematics of war" — is more precise than any press release: behind it stand three specific products that are already working.
What has been built together with Palantir
According to Fedorov, Ukrainian-American cooperation has produced three applied results. First, a system for detailed analysis of airstrikes — it processes trajectories, temporal patterns and types of munitions in real time. Second, AI solutions for working with large arrays of intelligence data: Palantir's Gotham platform consolidates data from drones, satellites, intercepted communications and civilian reports through the "eVorog" application into a single operational picture. According to Interfax Ukraine, the technologies are also integrated into deep strike planning — that is, into the decision-making cycle at the strategic level.
According to Time, Karp claimed that Palantir's software is "responsible for the majority of targeting in Ukraine" — although independent verification of these figures remains limited.
Brave1 Dataroom: data as a weapon
A separate direction became the Brave1 Dataroom platform, created jointly with Palantir. As Ukrinform explains, this is an environment where developers gain access to real combat data for training AI models.
"Over 100 companies are already training 80+ models for detecting and intercepting air targets in complex conditions"
Mikhaylo Fedorov, Defense Minister of Ukraine
The primary focus is autonomous detection and interception of "Shahed" type drones. According to the digitalstate.gov.ua portal, the platform already contains visual and thermal datasets of air targets, the library of which is gradually expanding. The logic is simple: Ukraine has accumulated a unique array of combat data over three years of full-scale war — Palantir provides the infrastructure to monetize this data in AI models.
Why Karp came in person
Palantir is one of the first major Western tech companies whose CEO personally visited Kyiv after February 24, 2022: Karp's first visit took place as early as June of that same year. Since then, according to the Carnegie Endowment, Palantir has used Ukraine both as a testing ground for combat operations and as a marketing argument for sales in Europe and NATO — the company signed a contract with the Alliance for AI solutions for the battlefield.
According to Zelensky after the meeting, the parties agreed that teams would remain in contact — a standard diplomatic formula, but in this context it means continued access to live combat data that no one else in the world has.
If Brave1 Dataroom transitions to a commercial model and Ukraine retains rights to data collected under real war conditions, this could become the first case where a country victimized by aggression transforms its combat experience into technological exports. The question is whether the conditions for the distribution of rights to models trained on this data are spelled out, and whether Ukraine will have leverage after the active phase of the conflict ends.
