US personell training with a Stinger missile system. File image: US Army
Originally published on ZeroHedge
Starting all the way back in April, some US defense officials had been expressing concern that Ukraine weapons shipments sent from Washington were entering a big “black hole” once they cross the border into the conflict – given there appeared little to no oversight or accountability in terms of arms and serial number tracking.
Ukrainian government officials have taken pains to to try and assure Western allies and international press that they are indeed carefully monitoring the weapons and munitions provided from allies, also to ensure they don’t end up on the black market or in the hands of unauthorized militants or terrorists.
But now we have the closest thing thus far to confirmation that indeed there’s a lack of necessary oversight, given on Thursday the Pentagon’s acting Inspector General Sean O’Donnell told Bloomberg that while he believes Ukrainian forces are using up all that they’ve been given by the US, it remains that there’s little “fidelity” as to where the weapons actually end up. This is due in large part, he explained, to the Ukrainians tracking external arms via hand receipts.
For this reason he’s looking to trace, test, and audit whether the Ukrainians are properly logging US-supplied military hardware. He says the Pentagon is on “alert” – looking evidence of gaps, missing weapons, and lack of oversight in the system.
Speaking of the Defense Department’s multi-billion dollar military assistance program, O’Donnell was quoted as follows in Bloomberg:
NATO officials “seem confident that the security was sufficient for the transfer of weapons” and “as far as we can tell, right now, everything that is supposed to shoot and go boom, they are using every bit of it,” O’Donnell said. But, he added, “this needs to be tested” through auditing.
…O’Donnell said the system had to be tested because Ukrainian officials do their accounting of American equipment with “hand receipts, it’s all paper.” Once equipment gets to Ukraine “I don’t think they have much fidelity” as to where it ends up, he said.
To illustrate the enormity of such an undertaking as overseeing an audit on whether the arms make it to their designated Ukrainian military recipients, the Pentagon IG explained the following:
“We have developed a universe of thousands of Ukraine-related contracts” that come in under $2 million each, Acting Inspector General Sean O’Donnell said in an interview. That’s more than 7,800 contracts valued at a combined $2.2 billion, O’Donnell added, even before an approaching deluge of bigger-ticket orders for advanced weapons such as the long-range HIMARS rocket systems prized by Ukrainian troops.
It must be remembered that the US infamously armed the jihadi resistance to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, only to have many of those weapons go straight into the hands of the Islamic State and other al-Qaeda affiliate groups. The consequence was an Islamic Caliphate that took over large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
US mainstream media has begun to begrudgingly admit there’s a serious problem…
And in Ukraine, Neo-Nazi groups like the Azov Battalion have been incorporated into the national armed forces. In an interview months into the war, President Volodymyr Zelensky was asked about the presence of these extremist groups within Ukraine’s military. Zelensky insisted they are “defending our country,” saying “they are what they are.” But regardless, this certainly isn’t stopping the Biden administration from pouring serious amounts of weaponry and military hardware straight into their hands.
They should start on the “Dark Web ” –plenty for sale there –at a price and as Zelensky and his Azov,s are proved to be “Coke-Heads ” selling US military weapons is “small beer ” to them.
You’ll see the light of you let me suck your cock.
nut me
Ollie North is in on the action, no doubt.
pentagon has been tracking and selling my anus since 1961
our international company with offices in pentagon, Tel Aviv, jens holm rectum supply a wide array of sausages —jens uses exploding type in anus, many US weapons never used including incompetent HIMARS
What a wonderful comment. This ones a keeper. No doubt you are one of the mods.
The biggest “Mod ” on SF is your Paymaster- Google – recaptcha and you have twice refused to answer my question to you – if you hate Russia so much as it is -what do you like about it and who do you want as a “strong leader ” ?
Will your boss allow you to be positive about Russia — ??
Part of “How to bring down a website” is TRY to demoralise the pro Russia posters by constantly criticising Russia at least you were taught that by your superiors.
You have “let the cat out of the bag ” and proved you are just another Paid Poster by your posting-
if it talks like a Paid Poster- acts like a Paid Poster – posts like a Paid Poster – then its a—
PAID POSTER,
Jens comments are so insightful, no wonder all my comments are removed, they need more room for Jens and Ramses.
Mine is taken away in a kind of random.
It’s always a problem with gifts that you lose control over it.
If US want to control what their weapons do they have to send their own soldiers. But USA is well reasonable afraid of a conflict with Russia. So they have to choose being official a member of war with boots on the ground to control their weapons, stop sending weapons or keep going on sending weapons but accepting that Ukraine can do what it desires to do with them including seeking it to US enemies.
US stop complaining on your own decision. A replacement war against Russia is not without easy decisions. Stop it or accept that your hostile acts cause serious problems for you as well.
Very primitive attitude to modern warfare. less soldies are used. They are relaced by very expensive equipment.
I andwe here in west se no complaining. But we know some better control is alaways a good idea.
Russiai is no part of Europe. They have showed i very well.
With all the faggots in the Ukie Nazi battalions America’s “right to bear arms” has become “the right to arm bears”!
They are same % there and all over the world.
Very funny reading. The idiots in DC talking about a big black hole where almost everything they send to Ukraine is disappearing into. Never to be seen or heard of again! Unfortunately, the US warmongering scumbags don’t send all their weaponry to Ukraine free of charge, it must all be paid for one way or another. The only way to get around that problem is for Russia to conquer ALL of Ukraine and then tell the money lenders from hell to F##K Off! And it goes without saying that all the weaponry found is kept by Russians and their friends. Finders keepers!
But thats expected. So they have to step up the control. We all has.
Can’t they send Russia the bill?
Hillarious . The comedy keeps writing itself .
Too funny, the Yanks can’t even keep track of their own military hardware according to DOD audit a few years ago. Just minor discrepancies like 38 Blackhawk helicopters that could not be accounted for as an example!
usa are so idiots the next terrorist attack with their own weapons ‘ll be on their soil…
Well. Those also can be used by friends.
Wasn’t that how bin laden got his start?
The Pentagon, the military bureau of the British Crown private Pirate Corporation, is worried the ukrainians might even follow some of the weapons. Then their goal of military chaos and masonic NWO would be delayed. An audit is needed.
the pentagon has invented the complete outsourcing of nato military to ukraine…
sure and how much of that “supposed to go shoot and boom” is used against civilians?
Go out and count Yourself. You seemes to ba an expert
90% Now where’s my prize?
Why would the USA/NATO care? UA is known to be a corrupt country, BEFORE this war… now it is even worse. The West called out UA for its corruption, they know that only 30% of the weapons they send get to the frontlines.
The military-industrial complex doesn’t care and they bought those pigs – they make big money.
We do care a lot. We also add and subtract. There are too big losses. Hard to see they are more then expected.
Prove me wrong, I can prove that you are wrong and coping hard. There was a true report that mentioned that only 30% of weapons send to UA get to frontlines by West MSM.
The US is the main supporter of UA, not the EU. The USA only gets the weapons close to UA borders and from there on it is on UA.
“Nato and EU sound alarm over risk of Ukraine weapons”
“We also add and subtract” What? You are stupid? If you have the wrong number…you think you get the RIGHT answer? Really now.
The US and EU both said that they have no clue where these weapons really end up. UA sold weapons to Russia and they are selling weapons on the black market.
Jens, FFS be clear about what you are saying.
In another 5 years, they’ll be offering to pay Russia to finish Ukraine’s cleanup.
amerikans are morons—they ensure Russian victory!
I worked in the American aerospace industry, and we lost expensive equipment all the time. Likewise, NASA lost their plans for the Saturn 5 rocket engines as well as moon footage. Since everyone get’s juicy retirement packages, no one cares.
Translation
“Pentagon want’s in on the action”
Conduct an aufit? BWAAAHAAAHAAA. They failed to conduct an audit on themselves for the past century.