Russia-Ukraine war news: Pentagon overestimated $6.2B in Ukraine aid
, including the cost of running schools and hospitals. “We’ll stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes as they continue to win this war,” British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said at the start of the conference, which Britain and Ukraine are co-hosting.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address that he would “present some aspects of our philosophy of Ukraine’s transformation." At last year’s event, Kyiv laid out a $750 billion reconstruction plan
and crashed on Wednesday without causing damage or casualties. Moscow region Gov. Andrei Vorobyov said two aerial vehicles had been approaching military depots when they fell. “Debris was found, there was no damage or casualties,” he said on Telegram. The Washington Post could not immediately verify the claim.
The Pentagon determined that it overrepresented the value of military equipment sent to Ukraine by a combined $6.2 billion since February 2022, the Biden administration said Tuesday, a significant error that will allow it to send more weapons before requesting additional funds from Congress. The error, first reported last month at about $3 billion, occurred because Pentagon officials erroneously calculated the totals using replacement values for the weapons rather than their current values, said Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh. The Biden administration has sent more than $40 billion in security assistance to Ukraine during the war.
Source: The Washington Post
