At the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, the company Fire Point, which, with $1 billion in contracts this year, would become one of Ukraine’s largest military contractors , was a casting agency for film and television. The New York Times ( NYT ), citing Ukrainian registration documents, reports that Fire Point’s legally listed owner, Yehor Skalyha, also runs a film location scouting firm that worked on dozens of productions, including a 2016 romantic comedy starring