Pentagon "sees no indications" that weapons transferred to Ukraine are directed anywhere other than protection against Russian forces

An official representative of the Pentagon made the statement during the briefing, according to the website of the department.

"I was wondering, does the U.S. plan on tracking weapons once in Ukraine or is the U.S. seeing any problems with the Ukrainians tracking their own weapons? And this has to do with the rumors there are of smuggling the weapons out of Ukraine," Fox News' Liz Frieden asked him. 

To which the spokesman replied that the US knows very well that the Ukrainians use their weapons only to protect themselves from the Russians.

"We feel pretty good that the Ukrainians are using the weapons that we've provided to them and have not seen any indications that those weapons have gone anywhere else other than to fight against the Russians," he said.

"We also aren't seeing any indication anywhere else that these weapons have been provided to anybody other than the Ukrainian Armed Forces," the Pentagon official emphasized.