The US Department of Defense has found errors in its assessment of military aid to Ukraine. The department claimed the amount of $8.2 billion, which was $2 billion higher than the real value, Hromadske reports.
Reuters writes about this, citing a report by the US Government Accountability Office.
The text states that the Pentagon has faced problems with accurately assessing defense goods sent to Ukraine due to unclear accounting definitions.
In 2023, the US Department of Defense claimed that employees used replacement cost instead of depreciated value to calculate billions of dollars of materials sent to Ukraine. At the same time, an error of $6.2 billion was discovered. This made it possible to send even more military aid to Ukraine.
Since then, the U.S. Defense Department has discovered another $2 billion in overpricing.
As a result, Washington will be able to send additional weapons to Ukraine for this amount to cover the total cost of the aid.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office points out that several factors led to such errors. In particular, the unclear definition of the value of the aid provided to Ukraine in the Foreign
Assistance Act and the fact that the Presidential Administration did not provide specific guidance on how to evaluate it.
Therefore, the Government Accountability Office provided the Pentagon with 7 recommendations, urging it to update its instructions. The US Department of Defense accepted these recommendations.
