The Pentagon trained a unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that could have violated human rights

The Pentagon trained a unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that “may have committed a gross violation of human rights.”

This is stated in a report on oversight of security assistance to Ukraine, published by the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Defense.

“Department of Defense personnel may have misused allocated funds by training a Ukrainian unit that may have committed a gross violation of human rights, which resulted in a violation of the Leahy Laws, as they did not provide sufficient documentation that the Leahy vetting was conducted on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that received training in the Department of Defense,” the Inspector General’s report states.

No other details are provided (such as which specific unit is being referred to or what specific human rights violations it committed).

The Leahy Laws are U.S. human rights laws that prohibit the State Department and the Pentagon from providing military assistance to foreign military or police units that violate human rights.

Earlier, media reported that the U.S. State Department allowed the Azov Brigade to use American weapons, lifting a ban that had been imposed about 10 years ago.

Ukraine also found itself at the center of a new political scandal after the George Washington University Institute in the United States published a report stating that Ukraine’s main military educational institution, supported by the U.S. State Department, the Hetman Petro Sahaidachny National Army Academy, “has become a home” for the far-right organization Centuria.

The U.S. Army also failed to review more than fifty accounts related to contracts worth $20 million in assistance to Ukraine.