The Pentagon said that for several months they have been conducting checks on how Ukraine uses Western weapons. No signs of theft were found during inspections.
This was stated by the spokesman of the Pentagon, Brigadier General Patrick Ryder, writes AFP.
“A small team consisting of personnel from the Office of the Defense Attaché at the US Embassy in Kyiv has conducted several inspections of US security assistance shipments over the past few months at various locations in Ukraine,” he noted.
According to him, such inspections were not carried out near the front line and were not a reaction to any events. He emphasized that the USA has no evidence of any embezzlement of American aid in Ukraine.
Ryder emphasized that Ukraine tracks “security assistance from border logistics centers to the front line” and “provides cost and damage reports to record losses”.
- Russian propaganda spread information about the alleged sale on the “black market” of Ceasar howitzers, which Ukraine received from France, and HIMARS rocket systems. American congresswoman Victoria Spartz stated in one of the interviews that there are allegedly obstacles in establishing oversight of American military aid to Ukraine.
- The EU stated that the information about “arms smuggling by Ukraine” supplied to it by its allies is an intensive disinformation campaign launched by Russia. The U.S. also sees no signs that Ukraine can smuggle the provided weapons out of the country: “We see no signs that these weapons went anywhere other than to fight the Russians.”