Current:Home > FinanceWho's tracking the weapons and money the U.S. is sending to Ukraine? "60 Minutes" went to find out. -AssetLink
Who's tracking the weapons and money the U.S. is sending to Ukraine? "60 Minutes" went to find out.
View
Date:2025-04-19 02:16:49
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went from meeting to meeting in Washington, D.C. on Thursday trying to gather support for more aid from the United States. He met with President Biden as well as senior defense officials and lawmakers as the U.S. Congress considers the White House's request to add more than $20 billion in aid to the $113 billion the U.S. has already committed to Ukraine.
"60 Minutes" has been attempting to track where the billions of dollars in U.S. cash and weaponry provided to Ukraine has gone since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February of 2022. On assignment for this week's "60 Minutes," CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams went to Ukraine to see how all the American tax dollars are being spent — and to find out if the weapons and money already provided have gone where they were supposed to go.
Watch Williams' full report this Sunday, Sept. 24, on "60 Minutes" from 7 p.m. Eastern. A preview is available at the top of this article.
Oleksandra Ustinova, an anti-corruption activist who became a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, chairs a government commission that tracks all of the military aid coming to Ukraine.
She shot video for "60 Minutes" inside what she called a top-secret warehouse storing American-made and supplied Javelin anti-tank missiles.
"We have online databases with the serial numbers of every American piece of weapon that your embassy has access to. They can come, type in, let's say, a Javelin or a HIMARS, and see in which brigade it is, and then go check it if they don't believe."
She said the Ukrainian government welcomes U.S. officials to go right to the front lines in the war to verify how American-supplied weaponry is being used.
It's one way, Ustinova said, that her country is trying to combat "this cancer, which is corruption, because otherwise, we're not gonna survive."
As Russia ramps up its own production and sourcing of shells and ammunition, Zelenskyy's government knows that convincing his partners in Washington of his own government's trustworthiness may indeed be an existential challenge.
- In:
- United States Congress
- Pentagon
- War
- Joe Biden
- Ukraine
- Russia
- White House
- Vladimir Putin
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy
veryGood! (81346)
Related
- 9/11 hearings at Guantanamo Bay in upheaval after surprise order by US defense chief
- Convicted murderer released in the ‘90s agrees to life sentence on 2 new murder charges
- Texas can no longer investigate alleged cases of vote harvesting, federal judge says
- Rebel Wilson and Ramona Agruma marry in Italy
- Opinion: Gianni Infantino, FIFA sell souls and 2034 World Cup for Saudi Arabia's billions
- World Central Kitchen, Hearts with Hands providing food, water in Asheville
- Measure to expand medical marijuana in Arkansas won’t qualify for the ballot
- Tyler Cameron’s Girlfriend Tate Madden Shares Peek Inside Their Romance
- Beware of giant spiders: Thousands of tarantulas to emerge in 3 states for mating season
- Angelina Jolie drops FBI lawsuit over alleged Brad Pitt plane incident, reports say
Ranking
- The Best Stocking Stuffers Under $25
- Madelyn Cline Briefly Addresses Relationships With Pete Davidson and Chase Stokes
- Reaction to the death of Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo
- USOPC leader Sarah Hirshland on Jordan Chiles appeal: 'She earned that medal'
- What polling shows about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Harris’ new running mate
- Martin Short Details Nervous First Day on Only Murders Set with Meryl Streep
- Channing Tatum Admits He's Freaking Out Over Daughter Everly's Latest Milestone
- Timothée Chalamet Looks Unrecognizable With Hair and Mustache Transformation on Marty Supreme Set
Recommendation
Billy Bean was an LGBTQ advocate and one of baseball's great heroes
Conyers fire: Shelter-in-place still in effect after chemical fire at pool cleaning plant
Halloween costumes for 'Fallout,' 'The Boys' and more Prime Video shows: See prices, ideas, more
Hall of Fame center Dikembe Mutombo dies of brain cancer at 58
Charges: D'Vontaye Mitchell died after being held down for about 9 minutes
Colton Underwood and Husband Jordan C. Brown Welcome First Baby
Water samples tested after Maine firefighting foam spill, below guidelines for dangerous chemicals
Dikembe Mutombo, NBA Center Legend, Dead at 58 After Cancer Battle