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Updated · The New York Times · Sep 6

Ukrainian Military Overpaid for Weapons in 2024-25 Audits, Draining Funds for Ammunition

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Updated · The New York Times · Sep 6

Ukrainian Military Overpaid for Weapons in 2024-25 Audits, Draining Funds for Ammunition

1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Sep 6

Confidential audits spanning 2024 and 2025 found Ukrainian military procurement officials repeatedly paid inflated prices for weapons and ammunition, according to more than 700 pages of reviews.
The audits by the State Audit Service and an internal Defense Ministry unit traced the overspending to deals routed through intermediaries instead of manufacturers and contracts awarded to suppliers that had already failed to deliver or faced corruption charges.
Auditors documented repeated examples of overpricing but said nothing was done, pointing to persistent procurement failures rather than isolated mistakes.
Former Defense Procurement Agency adviser Tamerlan Vahabov said the waste directly reduces Ukraine’s ability to buy more weapons and secure the ammunition volumes needed for the war with Russia.

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Could the secret to crippling Ukraine's frontline lie not in Russian attacks, but in the greedy hands of its own military intermediaries?

Are inflated weapon prices truly just corruption, or the hidden cost of securing gray-market arms when conventional supply chains fail?

Will new digital vetting systems finally purge Soviet-era corruption, or simply create fatal bottlenecks in wartime weapon deliveries?

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