Inspectors from the United States during the accounting of American military assistance to Kyiv did not find evidence of the theft of equipment or weapons by the Ukrainian side for further resale or for other purposes. It is reported by BBC.
“A small team of employees of the American Embassy in Kyiv and the office of a military attache held numerous inspections of US military assistance. These inspections took place over the past few months at different points of Ukraine removed from the front line. We did not receive evidence of the widespread theft of American military assistance in Ukraine, ”said Pentagon press secretary, brigade General Pat Ryder.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the United States, the Americans carefully monitor all deliveries to the border with Ukraine, and after which the Ukrainian side is following how weapons and equipment are delivered to the front line. Ukraine also provides a detailed report on all losses and expenditures of property.
“The main concerns are possible to capture Ukrainian weapons, including the pro -Russian forces provided by America with its further resale. It is possible that Russia can also use this weapon to develop measures to counteract it, propaganda and operations under the flag of others,” – They said in the State Department of the United States.
Earlier, Russian media have repeatedly argued that Western weapons supplied by Ukraine are resold and fall into other countries, but these messages have not been confirmed.