The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has maintained information about the Ukrainian children who were kidnapped by the Russian government during its war in Ukraine, which had been deleted.
Researchers at Yale University, who were tracking tens of thousands of kidnapped Ukrainian children, have created a database as one project as part of the Ministry of Conflict Observatory of the Ministry of Biden. In addition to tracking the potential war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, the conflict Observatory follows the civil war in Sudan. Legislators are afraid to delete the database on Ukrainian children when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reduced the group to track kidnappings.
“The data is safe.” He said that the database will be transferred to the “appropriate party”, without specifying, and that the program will not work anymore because the financing has been reduced as part of almost all foreign aid to stop when President Trump took office in January. Data is likely to be transferred to the International Criminal Court and Europol, the main law enforcement agency in Europe.
The Yale of Health Human-Hemitary Lab, which was tracking kidnappings, had counted more than 30,000 children taken from Ukraine to places including Russia and belarus since the full invasion of Russia began the environment from Ukraine, including Dossiain, when the weighting of traffes trackin is a system.
Ukrainian officials say Russia has kidnapped 20,000 children from the country.
In 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir F. Putin is from Russia and an assistant, accusing them of war crimes due to the kidnapping and deportation of Ukrainian children. The Kremlin denied war crimes, but it was not a secret about the transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia.
The Yale Laboratory intended to deliver the database to the Europol and the International Criminal Court. In addition to the arrest warrant for Mr. Putin due to the deportation, the court also issued one for the assistant, Maria Lavova Bilova. The purpose of the database is to help the court to lift charges against more Russian officials.
This month, American lawmakers sent a letter to Mr. Rubio asking about the project status and say they have heard that the database may have been deleted after stopping the financing.
The conflict observatory program, which was working with the Yale Laboratory, is supposed to work for six weeks to give experts the time to transfer the database.
The main contractor of the program was MITER, a non -profit organization that often works on US intelligence agencies. Yale’s laboratory was a subcontractor under Mitri. Congress has allocated funding for the project from 2022 to this year.
After the legislators expressed their concern about the database, Metri said in a statement that it was not deleted and was in the hands of another specialized group.