The US Department of Foreign Affairs has put an end to the financing for following thousands of Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia, and may have been removed an American database with information about the victims, according to a letter that American legislators are planning to send Trump officers on Wednesday.
A group of Democratic American legislators wrote the letter to State Secretary Marco Rubio And Minister of Finance Scott Bessent, encouraging the administration to restore the program that helps keep track of the abducted Ukrainian children.
The administration has put an end to a government-funded initiative under the leadership of the humanitarian research laboratory of Yale University that has followed the massive deportation of children from Ukraine, which means that researchers have lost access to a considerable amount of information-including satellite images-on from Ukraine.
“We have reason to believe that the data from the repository were permanently deleted. If it is true, this would have devastating consequences,” the letter said, led by Ohio Rep. Greg Landsman.
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A group of Democratic American legislators wrote a letter to State Secretary Marco Rubio and Finance Minister Scott Bessent. (Reuters)
The news of the letter came on Tuesday, on the same day that US President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who no longer agreed with a 30 -day reinforcement in Moscow War against Ukraine.
A person who is familiar with the follow -up program said that the cancelled contract from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs led to the removal of $ 26 million in proof of war crimes.
“They took $ 26 million from American tax money that was used for data from war crimes and threw them in the Houtsnipper, including the files on all children,” the person told Reuters.
“If you wanted to protect President Putin against persecution, you have destroyed that thing. And they did it. It is the last -bblinged version with all metadata,” the person added.
The US Department of Foreign Affairs has put an end to the financing to follow thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency/Getty images)
The letter to administrative officials also calls for sanctions to punish civil servants in Russia and its ally Wit -Russia involved in kidnapping children.
“These serious, openly recognized violations of the rights of children offered under the consequences of international law,” said the letter.
The humanitarian research lab of Yale University also no longer has access to the satellite images that are needed to follow the kidnapped children, according to the legislators.
“Our government offers an essential service – one that does not require the transfer of weapons or cash to Ukraine – when pursuing the noble goal of saving these children. We must immediately resume work to help Ukraine bring these children home,” said the letter.
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The news of the letter came on Tuesday, on the same day that US President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Getty Images / Fox News Digital)
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Ukraine has described the abductions of tens of thousands of his children brought to Russia Or Russian occupied territory without the consent of the parents as a war crime that meets the UN Treaty definition of genocide.
Russia has claimed that it voluntarily evacuated to protect vulnerable children against trapped in the crossfire.
In March 2023, the International Criminal Court of Warrants spent the arrest of LVOVO-BELOVA and Putin in connection with the kidnapping of Ukrainian children, a Russia move as “scandalous and unacceptable”.
Eurojust, Europe’s Agency for Criminal Cooperation, said on Tuesday that the US government put an end to its support for the International Center for the prosecution of aggression against Ukraine, which collected evidence to prosecute Putin and others. The American special public prosecutor at Eurojust, Jessica Kim, would leave as part of the move.
Reuters has contributed to this report.
