The US Department of Defence overestimated the value of weapons and other military equipment provided to Ukraine by approximately $3bn, officials said, an error in accounting that may lead the way for more arms being sent to Kyiv.In many of the military aid packages sent to Ukraine, the defence department opted to draw from existing US stockpiles of older, existing items because it should ship them faster, officials said.The accounting error was the result of assigning a higher than warranted value on older weaponry that was taken from those existing stocks.
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