In the short term, the US sees the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of equipment to be vital to the Ukrainians’ ability to hold off Moscow’s invasion. A senior defense official said Tuesday that it is “certainly the largest recent supply to a partner country in a conflict.” But the risk, both current US officials and defense analysts say, is that in the long term, some of those weapons may wind up in the hands of other militaries and militias that the US did not intend to arm.
In making the decision to send billions of dollars of weapons and equipment into Ukraine, the Biden administration factored in the risk that some of the shipments may ultimately end up in unexpected places, a defense official said.
Because the US military is not on the ground, the US and NATO are heavily reliant on information provided by Ukraine’s government. Privately, officials recognize that Ukraine has an incentive to give only information that will bolster their case for more aid, more arms and more diplomatic assistance.
“It’s hard to track with nobody on the ground,” said one source familiar with the intelligence.
www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/us-weapons-ukraine-intelligence/index.html
I've been saying this since last year. Ukraine is well known for its black market weapon sales.
It's only a matter of time before some of these advanced weapons systems end up in the hands of ISIS and other terror groups. t.co/yzEbw5TeKD
— St.Albert James (@RealCNN) March 14, 2022
h/t inna