US EditionTrump admin temporarily restores funding to initiative tracking Russian war crimes
- The Trump administration has temporarily restored funding for six weeks to the Ukraine Conflict Observatory, an initiative tracking alleged Russian war crimes, reversing a previous decision to cut assistance.
- The policy reversal followed congressional concern regarding the Trump administration's initial decision to end funding for the initiative.
- Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab compiled three reports for the Ukraine Conflict Observatory using satellite imagery and biometric data to track the identities and locations of over 30,000 Ukrainian children at dozens of locations.
- A State Department spokesperson stated on Thursday that "Funding is being provided for a short period while the Conflict Observatory implementers ensure the proper transfer of the critical data on the children to the appropriate authorities."
- The restored funding aims to preserve and transfer the crucial data, including the locations of the abducted children, to Europol and the Ukrainian government, as lawmakers emphasized that this data is crucial to Ukraine's efforts to return their children home, although Yale HRL's funding has been terminated and the status of the secure evidence repository is unknown.
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Trump delays shutdown of program tracking deportation of Ukrainian children
The Trump administration has temporarily reversed its decision to shut down an initiative that tracks alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine and the deportation of Ukrainian children, The Washington Post reported, citing congressional sources.
US funding for abducted Ukrainian children program restored temporarily, White House still terminating initiative
The U.S. State Department announced on March 27 that it would provide short-term funding to an initiative documenting Ukrainian children abducted by Russia after White House terminated the program, Reuters reported.The program, run by Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab under the State Department's Conflict Observatory, used biometric data and satellite imagery to track Russia's abduction of Ukrainian children. At least 19,500 Ukrainian …
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