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>A Ukrainian parliamentary inquiry concluded that between 1992 and 1998, Ukraine lost $32 billion in military assets
These were the year IMMEDIATELY after Ukraine declared independence and Soviet (Russian) generals were stealing everything that wasn't nailed down. Since then, the Pentagon has gone through repeated inventory and asset verifications with Ukraine, all showing very little waste fraud and abuse, and Kyiv is actively arresting and prosecuting corrupt officers who are reporting false losses or taking bribes. When Ukraine is in Moscow's orbit, it is utterly corrupt. When Ukraine moves toward the West, operations and inventory are much more clean and transparent.