The Pentagon doesn’t know whether or not protection gadgets had been “misplaced or destroyed,” an investigation has discovered
The US Protection Division is unable to find $62 million value of weapons given to Ukraine, in accordance with a report launched on Wednesday.
The conclusions had been introduced by the Pentagon inspector normal after an evaluation on whether or not the DoD is successfully monitoring protection gadgets supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The watchdog discovered that as of late November final 12 months, a complete $62.2 million in {hardware} designated for enhanced end-use monitoring (EEUM) was reported as lacking. Amongst them are evening imaginative and prescient units, Javelin anti-tank missiles, and missile launch items.
In keeping with the report, the US Workplace of Protection Cooperation (ODC) in Ukraine “can not inform which of these things had been misplaced and which had been destroyed.” The Ukrainian military has not but supplied clarification, it provides.
The ODC works in partnership with Ukraine’s Protection Ministry and Armed Forces to supply tools and coaching to Kiev in its battle with Russia. Ukraine’s military stories to the ODC on the usage of the American-supplied tools.
The Workplace of the Inspector Normal additionally discovered that loss stories had been filed after a mean of 301 days, roughly 10 occasions longer than the required timeframe.
”This will increase the chance that the DoD might lose accountability over EEUM designated protection articles supplied to Ukraine,” the doc reads.
The report famous that it was past the scope of the probe to find out whether or not there have been “diversions” of navy help. Allegations of felony conduct relating to US arms despatched to Ukraine are being investigated, it added.
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In January, the watchdog reported that the Pentagon had did not correctly observe $1 billion value of navy provides given to Ukraine, and that a lot of the tools despatched was “delinquent.”
Between February 2022 and June this 12 months, Washington supplied roughly $51.2 billion in navy help to Ukraine, together with air protection programs and munitions, anti-aircraft missiles, artillery rockets, anti-armor programs, tanks, and helicopters.
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