The U.S. Department of Defense on June 20 said it has overcounted the value of the weapons it sent to Ukraine over the past two years by $6.2 billion.
This error occurred because U.S. military officials didn’t count the actual value of what was pulled from the Pentagon’s weapons stockpile and sent to Ukraine but instead used the value of replacing those weapons, according to deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh. Newly produced weapons usually cost more than the excess old ones they replace.
