Pentagon Error Overvalued Weapons Sent to Ukraine by $3 Billion

According to a report from Reuters, the Pentagon overestimated the value of military equipment it sent to Ukraine by $3 billion, meaning the US could ship even more weapons to the country.

Two unnamed Pentagon officials said the error was assigning a higher value to weapons the US has shipped to Ukraine from US military stockpiles. “We’ve discovered inconsistencies in how we value the equipment that we’ve given,” one official told Reuters.

The officials said that the value that was being assigned to the arms was based on what it would cost to replace them, not their current value after depreciation.