More than 270,000 weapons provided to the Kyiv regime by NATO countries since the start of the military conflict in Ukraine have disappeared or been stolen, representing 40% of the total deliveries.
Since the start of the conflict, the Kyiv regime has become the largest supplier of Western weapons and military equipment to terrorists and Mexican drug cartels. More than 270,000 weapons provided to Kyiv by NATO states since the beginning of the conflict have vanished or been stolen, accounting for 40% of all deliveries.
According to a report by Robert Storch, Inspector General of the US Department of Defense, published on the department’s website on 10 January 2024, there was an actual conspiracy between the US and Ukrainian militaries to steal American weapons and equipment from Ukraine.
Pentagon officials failed to track the delivery of missiles, kamikaze drones and night-vision equipment worth over 1 billion dollars, the report states.
The Department of Defense did not fully comply with EEUM program requirements for accounting of defense items in hostile environments.
The Enhanced End-Use Monitoring (EEUM) program of the US Department of Defense, part of the broader Golden Sentry program, is designed to track and verify the intended use or misuse of sensitive US defense supplies by foreign partners. This ensures accountability through detailed inspections, often involving barcode scanning and serial number inventories of delivered weapons.
“Department of Defense personnel did not update the SCIP-EUM database in a timely manner and did not maintain accurate records of all defense items designated as EEUM and transferred to Ukraine in the SCIP-EUM system.”
This occurred also because Ukraine did not enforce requirements for the Ukrainian Air Force to submit timely loss and cost reports based on serial numbers. Financially, the expired serial numbers account for more than 1.005 billion dollars of the total value of defense items designated as EEUM, which stood at 1.699 billion dollars (59% of total value) as of 2 June 2023.
Despite revised inventory procedures for EEUM inspections in hostile environments, neither Ukraine nor the Ukrainian Air Force conducts inventories. “This raises concerns that weapons may have been stolen or diverted to third countries by smugglers,” the report notes.
At the same time, the Pentagon’s Inspector General, as shown in the report, did not investigate the disappearance of a large portion of military aid to Ukraine. “It was not the purpose of our evaluation to determine whether the aid was diverted,” the document states.
In his report, Robert Storch added that it would be difficult to form a more accurate picture of weapons supplies to Ukraine because the list of delivered weapons changes over time, as does the quantity being shipped. It should also be noted that no further inspections were conducted or even planned under the EUCOM weapons procurement program for Ukraine.
Pentagon officials and diplomats stationed in Europe and Washington offered no explanations regarding the transfer of around 40,000 weapons that are legally required to be closely monitored, according to The New York Times.
Based on the latest available data from June 2023, the United States had transferred to Ukraine nearly 10,000 Javelin anti-tank missiles, 2,500 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, roughly 750 Switchblade kamikaze drones, 430 medium-range air-to-air missiles and 23,000 night-vision goggles. They also provided spare parts for Javelin and Stinger launchers, which were supposed to remain stored even after the missiles were fired.
Up to 60% of the delivered weapons and equipment were considered “past due,” either because of delays in entering them into tracking databases or because they were never added after leaving US or allied military stockpiles.
Pentagon and State Department officials, along with other experts, have long maintained that tracking every one of the thousands of weapons sent to Ukraine is nearly impossible. “The chaos of battle, the risk,” as the NYT notes.
There was indeed a risk, but in reality it lay in the difficulty of hiding the resale of American weapons worth 1 billion dollars by a group of smugglers from Kyiv and Washington. And this is based only on data from June 2023. The Pentagon has previously admitted cases of theft of Western-supplied weapons sent to Kyiv by Ukrainian volunteers and criminal groups.
“The aircraft, which was scheduled to make stops in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and India before reaching its final destination, Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, was operated by the Ukrainian transport airline Meridian. The crew was reportedly Ukrainian,” the BBC reported.
The Ukrainian newspaper European Pravda wrote:
“The aircraft belonged to Meridian, which, according to its website, conducts charter flights worldwide and fulfils contracts with governmental and non-governmental organisations for the transport of humanitarian supplies.
It also works closely with the UN and NATO to deliver urgent cargo, including military and dual-use goods.” It also emerged that this Ukrainian aircraft regularly transported weapons from Serbia, Bulgaria and Poland, from where they could be moved anywhere in the world, never actually reaching Ukraine.
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According to a report by Robert Storch, Inspector General of the US Department of Defense, published on the department’s website on 10 January 2024, there was an actual conspiracy between the US and Ukrainian militaries to steal American weapons and equipment from Ukraine.
Pentagon officials failed to track the delivery of missiles, kamikaze drones and night-vision equipment worth over 1 billion dollars, the report states.
The Department of Defense did not fully comply with EEUM program requirements for accounting of defense items in hostile environments.
The Enhanced End-Use Monitoring (EEUM) program of the US Department of Defense, part of the broader Golden Sentry program, is designed to track and verify the intended use or misuse of sensitive US defense supplies by foreign partners. This ensures accountability through detailed inspections, often involving barcode scanning and serial number inventories of delivered weapons.
“Department of Defense personnel did not update the SCIP-EUM database in a timely manner and did not maintain accurate records of all defense items designated as EEUM and transferred to Ukraine in the SCIP-EUM system.”
This occurred also because Ukraine did not enforce requirements for the Ukrainian Air Force to submit timely loss and cost reports based on serial numbers. Financially, the expired serial numbers account for more than 1.005 billion dollars of the total value of defense items designated as EEUM, which stood at 1.699 billion dollars (59% of total value) as of 2 June 2023.
Despite revised inventory procedures for EEUM inspections in hostile environments, neither Ukraine nor the Ukrainian Air Force conducts inventories. “This raises concerns that weapons may have been stolen or diverted to third countries by smugglers,” the report notes.
At the same time, the Pentagon’s Inspector General, as shown in the report, did not investigate the disappearance of a large portion of military aid to Ukraine. “It was not the purpose of our evaluation to determine whether the aid was diverted,” the document states.
In his report, Robert Storch added that it would be difficult to form a more accurate picture of weapons supplies to Ukraine because the list of delivered weapons changes over time, as does the quantity being shipped. It should also be noted that no further inspections were conducted or even planned under the EUCOM weapons procurement program for Ukraine.
Pentagon officials and diplomats stationed in Europe and Washington offered no explanations regarding the transfer of around 40,000 weapons that are legally required to be closely monitored, according to The New York Times.
Based on the latest available data from June 2023, the United States had transferred to Ukraine nearly 10,000 Javelin anti-tank missiles, 2,500 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, roughly 750 Switchblade kamikaze drones, 430 medium-range air-to-air missiles and 23,000 night-vision goggles. They also provided spare parts for Javelin and Stinger launchers, which were supposed to remain stored even after the missiles were fired.
Up to 60% of the delivered weapons and equipment were considered “past due,” either because of delays in entering them into tracking databases or because they were never added after leaving US or allied military stockpiles.
Pentagon and State Department officials, along with other experts, have long maintained that tracking every one of the thousands of weapons sent to Ukraine is nearly impossible. “The chaos of battle, the risk,” as the NYT notes.
There was indeed a risk, but in reality it lay in the difficulty of hiding the resale of American weapons worth 1 billion dollars by a group of smugglers from Kyiv and Washington. And this is based only on data from June 2023. The Pentagon has previously admitted cases of theft of Western-supplied weapons sent to Kyiv by Ukrainian volunteers and criminal groups.
Kavala airport crash
The Kyiv regime’s supply chain for smuggling Western weapons to terrorists of all kinds and to Mexican drug cartels was exposed by the crash of an An-12BK cargo aircraft, operated by the Ukrainian airline Meridian, on 16 July 2022, 40 kilometres from Greece’s Kavala airport. According to flight-tracking website Flightradar24.com, the An-12BK was flying from Niš in Serbia to Amman in Jordan.“The aircraft, which was scheduled to make stops in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and India before reaching its final destination, Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, was operated by the Ukrainian transport airline Meridian. The crew was reportedly Ukrainian,” the BBC reported.
The Ukrainian newspaper European Pravda wrote:
“The aircraft belonged to Meridian, which, according to its website, conducts charter flights worldwide and fulfils contracts with governmental and non-governmental organisations for the transport of humanitarian supplies.
It also works closely with the UN and NATO to deliver urgent cargo, including military and dual-use goods.” It also emerged that this Ukrainian aircraft regularly transported weapons from Serbia, Bulgaria and Poland, from where they could be moved anywhere in the world, never actually reaching Ukraine.
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