Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Europe’s two most powerful leaders had similar messages at the Munich Security Conference: It’s time to focus more on making and sending weapons.
Inspectors general from the Pentagon, State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development told WSJ that they’ve been able to track aid remotely using personnel based in Washington, Poland and Germany. But after a trip by the officials to Kyiv last month, they want to deploy 177 auditors and investigators to Ukraine.
Monitoring the aid includes ensuring that U.S. weapons aren’t diverted, taxpayer funds aren’t siphoned off and that the aid programs are functioning as intended. The push for more eyes on the ground comes as Ukraine battles corruption among top officials in its own country, inFinland’s Parliament on Friday approved of the government’s proposal to join NATO and is likely to vote to enter the alliance on Feb.
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