Palantir, the US data analytics giant, has been a regular presence in Ukraine helping with its defence against Russia since the war kicked into gear in 2022. It’s provided AI insights to help with de-mining projects, predicting where to target fire, and giving the country’s forces overall battlefield intelligence. The latest chapter of that relationship is being unveiled today. Brave1, the country’s effort to bring more defence tech to Ukraine’s forces, is launching a new project with Palantir called the Brave1 Dataroom, which will use war data to test and train AI models to develop battlefield applications.
Palantir said that the first Dataroom efforts will focus on improving autonomous tech to detect and intercept drones. Initial libraries will include already “curated collections” of visual and thermal datasets of aerial targets, primarily Shahed drones, it noted. The list will expand over time.
In addition to Brave1, Ukraine is bringing in its Ministry of Defence, its Armed Forces and its Defence Intelligence Research Institute to both contribute data and use the insights that are coming out of the Dataroom project.
The country is in an unenviably unique position here. Not only is it in the middle of brutal war, but it happens to be one that is already being fought with an unprecedented amount of technology aiding both sides of the conflict. Better autonomous data is a logical first goal: Alongside more traditional weapons, AI-assisted drones are a cornerstone of how intelligence is gathered and battles are being waged by both sides, in addition to the use of autonomous systems throughout other kinds of vehicles and hardware.
“There is no other country that has, sadly, that data asset,” said Louis Mosley, Palantir’s EVP for the UK and Europe, speaking at Davos this week.
Regardless of whether or not Ukraine becomes a template for how conflicts are fought out elsewhere, what Dataroom shows is that technology has provided a set of circumstances that Ukraine will continue to try using to its advantage.
“Artificial intelligence is becoming a decisive factor on the modern battlefield,” Mykhailo Fedorov, the newly-appointed minister of defence for Ukraine, said in a statement. “We are grateful to Palantir for its technological partnership in launching the Brave1 Dataroom to enable the development of AI-powered technological game-changers. The first focus of the Dataroom will be advancing technologies for autonomous detection and interception of aerial threats — a capability that is crucial for Ukraine.”
Palantir has been working in Ukraine for years, yet the news comes at a time when there has been a less positive spotlight on its activities in the world of defence. In December 2025 it emerged that Switzerland’s defence forces had cancelled their use of Palantir after an audit by the Armed Forces General Staff found that data in the systems could be leaked to US government and intelligence, with a report raising the question of whether this is also potentially an issue in Ukraine, where Palantir has also been working.
Palantir has published a lengthy rebuttal of the claims and provided Resilience Media with a statement on the story.
“There is no basis to the claim in the report by the Swiss army about potential access to sensitive data and no truth to it whatsoever,” the spokesperson said. “We run a business that is predicated on the trust of our customers, which means we also do everything possible – from contractual, procedural, to technical controls – to ensure that our customers are in full control of their data, their operations and their decisions when using Palantir software.”
Palantir for its part notes that only people with the requisite security clearance would be able to access the new Brave1 Dataroom.
