I've been writing for the past two years about the questions of accountability in terms of the weapons and equipment being sent to Ukraine, and how there was a big problem tracking the weapons that were being sent to the war-torn nation.
More than $1 billion in military weapons and equipment that the United States has provided Ukraine to fight invading Russian forces cannot be accounted for and is not being fully tracked, according to a Pentagon audit released Thursday.
Since the Russian invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has been given roughly $45 billion in U.S. military aid that has included a wide range of weapons such as air-defense systems, anti-drone systems, various missiles and rockets and small-arms ammunition.
The Defense Department inspector general concluded in the report that about $1 billion in weapons that are required to be tracked have not been.
The audit didn't say what happened to the weapons, saying that was beyond their scope to assess.
The untracked weapons are subject to what the Pentagon calls enhanced end-use monitoring, or EEUM, requirements.
The inspector general's report makes several recommendations to improve accountability for EEUM weapons sent to Ukraine.
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