The Department of Defense has no knowledge of any of the weapons provided to Ukraine finding their way into the wrong hands, officials said on Tuesday.
The Biden administration has provided Ukraine with roughly $30 billion worth of aid, and the topic of oversight on these weapons has garnered more attention in recent weeks as House Republicans gained the majority and vowed additional oversight.“We don’t see any evidence of diversion in our reporting,” Colin Kahl, the undersecretary of defense for policy, told the House Armed Services Committee at a hearing on Tuesday. “We think the Ukrainians are using properly what they’ve been given.
“We’re laser focused on this issue,” he said. “We’re doing audits and evaluations that look at the weapons from the time they begin at the port, while they’re transferred, as they get to the transshipment points and then go into the country.” Earlier this month, committee Chairman Mike Rogers led a bipartisan congressional delegation to Romania and Poland, where they were able to get a better understanding of the oversight currently provided.
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