Pentagon says it overvalued equipment sent to Ukraine by $6.2 billion, opening way for more supplies

The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that it had overvalued the equipment it has sent to Ukraine thus far, allowing the Department of Defense to allocate additional resources for Kyiv to continue fighting Moscow.

Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said that the error amounted to roughly $6.2 billion, including $2.6 billion in fiscal year 2022 and $3.6 billion in 2023, according to ABC News. That surplus, she said, will "go back into the pot of money that we have allocated."

The figure more than doubles an earlier estimate of the Pentagon's accounting error, which the DOD assessed in March to have been "at least" $3 billion.

The United States has authorized roughly $113 billion in aid to Ukraine, including for the nation's security assistance and the cost of replacing war materials the U.S. sent abroad. Washington announced in June that it had delivered more than $40 billion in security assistance to Ukraine, though the revision appears to put the figure closer to $33.8 billion, for an overvaluation of roughly 18%.

Kyiv is currently pursuing a counteroffensive operation against Russian positions in the south of the country, though that effort has yet to make significant headway in terms of reclaiming occupied territory. Both sides claim to have inflicted heavy casualties on one another, though precise figures remain elusive.

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