A Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General report (OIG) report found that $62.2 million in weapons and military for Ukraine aid have gone missing.
The millions of dollars were determined to be “lost or destroyed.”
“The absence of timely and complete enhanced end‑use monitoring EEUM loss reporting, along with the lack of thorough analysis of the loss reports, impedes the DoD’s understanding of any potential end‑use EEUM‑designated defense articles,” the report states.
“This increases the risk that the DoD could lose accountability over EEUM‑designated defense articles provided to Ukraine.”
The report was unable to determine if the funding had been diverted. “It was beyond the scope of our evaluation to determine whether there has been diversion of such assistance,” it reads.
According to the report, the “average time from initial defense article loss to final loss report production was 301 days for those reports that contained the loss dates.” The number is 10 times greater than the reporting requirement, 30 days.
Inspector General Robert Storch said in a press release, “Safeguarding EEUM-designated defense articles is of critical importance.”
“Although the DoD and the UAF continue to improve reporting gaps in the EEUM process, additional improvements can be made to comply with the requirements for tracking and accountability of such equipment that is reported as lost or destroyed,” he continued.
While the OIG cannot find more than $60 million taxpayer-funded Ukraine aid, another report found that the U.S. Navy overspent $398.9 million in Ukraine aid.
According to the report, the Navy “over-executed its funding three times during FY 2022,” totaling nearly $400 million. “While the Navy had funds available to reverse the over-execution on those occasions, such funds may not be available in the future, which could lead to a potential Antideficiency Act violation.”
“The Navy did not have adequate internal controls to prevent the over-execution of funds from reoccurring,” the report asserted, explaining that the internal controls “focused on identifying the over-execution after it occurred, rather than preventing it from occurring.”
Over-execution was due to the Navy Standard Accounting, Budgeting, and Reporting System’s (NSABRS) “limitations and inability to prevent the over-execution of funds.”
