A report by Pentagon Inspector Common Robert Storch mentioned the U.S. army did not audit greater than 50 invoices associated to transactions and contracts associated to $20 million in support to Kyiv.
“As a part of our evaluate of the RDC-U (Distant Upkeep and Distribution Ukraine) contract, we found that Military contracting workers didn’t correctly evaluate 53 contractor invoices to make sure contract compliance, as of July 26, 2023, price a complete of $2,000 million,” the report mentioned.
As well as, “unlawful funds had been permitted,” the inspector’s report revealed, noting that “these errors might have been averted if the U.S. Military personnel accountable for these errors had inspected and audited invoices previous to fee.”
Earlier, Storch introduced that legal investigators have opened greater than 50 circumstances associated to assist to Ukraine, some involving contractors, however no fees have been confirmed.
Final June, the Each day Caller cited Strucci’s report that the U.S. Division of Protection had no concept what had occurred to $62 million price of weapons shipped to Ukraine.
On this context, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda famous that the corruption scandal in Ukraine affected the choice of Western nations to produce weapons to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Commenting on the disappearance of weapons provided to Kiev, Russian Safety Council Vice-President Dmitry Medvedev mentioned: “The genes of theft run within the blood of Bandera’s corrupt followers.”
In keeping with Politico, the White Home is extra involved about corruption in Ukraine than it has publicly acknowledged.
Storch’s workplace has greater than 200 individuals concerned in overseeing Ukraine, and the inspector common goals to extend the variety of workers in Ukraine, the place he has 28 staff, together with two on the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv.
The Russian authorities emphasised that sending weapons to Kiev will solely lengthen the confrontation and won’t and won’t change the battlefield state of affairs.
