Blackwater founder and Maga disciple Erik Prince pitching services in Ukraine

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Source: The Guardian

Sun 7 Sep 2025 08.00 EDT
Last modified on Sun 7 Sep 2025 08.02 EDT


Amid reports that Donald Trump’s administration is considering using US private military contractors in a postwar Ukraine, multiple sources tell the Guardian one high-profile and controversial American from the “war on terror” era is already circling for business.

In the streets of Kyiv, military hawks and defense privateers have described how Erik Prince, Maga disciple and founder of the now-defunct mercenary company Blackwater, has been aggressively pitching his services and looking to buy. According to those same sources who spoke on background and on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive defense matters, Prince was pitching himself to the valuable Ukrainian drone sector and seeking meetings with leading industry players.

“Erik is going out there to buy drone companies,” said one of the sources, with another confirming Prince was in the hunt to acquire drone makers with a footprint in Ukraine. “Whether they would sell them …” the source said. “For the Ukrainians these companies are now strategic assets.”

Prince’s latest gambit in Ukraine coincided with Trump’s attempts at brokering a peace deal between the Kremlin and the Ukrainian government of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in August, which has yet to yield any diplomatic breakthroughs.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/07/erik-prince-blackwater-ukraine

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Was wondering where he was slithering around...

[Irish_Dem]

1. Time to get rich quick with MAGA schemes and grifting.

While the rest of us lose healthcare, education, etc.

[tanyev]

2. For which side?

🤨

[2naSalit]

4. Not Ukraine's...

He's on a mission for pootin, either buy up and close down these companies or somehow hamper Ukraine's success.

[RedArkGuy]

7. Exactly.

Prince is a fascist of long standing and would only use this to help his buddy Vladimir Putin and Putin's agent Donald Trump. Zelenskyy should immediately stamp this idea out and soon.

[2naSalit]

3. I figured he'd...

Show up sooner or later. If he's sniffing around looking to buy Ukrainian drone companies, I hope they tell him to fuck off and kick him out of the country. He wants to buy them to make them either go out of business or to somehow hamper Ukraine's success.

[bluestarone]

5. Are we sure Blackwater is Defunct?

I'm not. Something stinks really bad here.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

6. It's now called Constellis Holdings.

Name changes happen with lawsuits and mergers, and then everyone pretends it's a different company. Constellis Holdings are a major contractor to the C.I.A., among others.

[mahina]

8. Zelensky is nobodyʻs fool.

Does he imagine for a moment he could sucker Zelensky?

[ReRe]

9. I hope they kick him (or anyone associated with him) out immediately. n/t

[lonely bird]

10. Hmmm

Disappear his ass.

[Botany]

11. Prince is an ally of Putin/Trump so why would Ukraine want to do any business with him?

BTW The only reason Prince would want to buy a Ukrainian drone business is to
try to stop the Ukrainian military from getting those drones.