Chmut hinted at “his own people” after strike on warehouse near Kyiv — Fire Point co-founder calls him a scoundrel

Volunteer and director of the “Come Back Alive” foundation Taras Chmut publicly questioned whether those responsible for storing weapons at a warehouse in the settlement of Milaya in the Bucha district of Kyiv Oblast would face real punishment — because they are, in his words, “their own people.”

Many readers concluded that Chmut was referring to the company Fire Point.

The volunteer published the relevant post on the social network X. In it, he drew a parallel with another incident — a strike on the territory of a state enterprise in Vyshneve, after which criminal proceedings were opened and managers were dismissed and detained.

“After the strike on the territory of the state enterprise in Vyshneve, criminal proceedings were opened, and the managers were dismissed and detained. They are facing a substantial real prison sentence. Will there be a similar response this time? Or if the enterprise belongs to ‘their own people,’ do we just blame it on the war and the Russians? Because you can’t touch your own people,” — Chmut wrote on X.

In the comments on the post, Fire Point co-founder Denis Shtilerman stated that Chmut was spreading lies and called him a scoundrel. Other commenters directly asked whether Chmut was referring specifically to Fire Point and who exactly was meant by “their own people.” Users are also concerned about whether the problem of placing ammunition depots away from residential areas is solvable at all.

The Russian side had previously claimed that the warehouse near Bucha stored components for Flamingo rockets and FP-1/FP-2 drones — products of the company Fire Point.

The ammunition depot in Vyshneve near Kyiv, where shells continued to detonate for a long time after a Russian strike on July 6, was located just 18 meters from residential buildings, it was previously reported.