Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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Ryuu96 said:

The State Department has ended funding for the tracking of tens of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and American officials or contractors might have deleted a database with information on them, according to a letter U.S. lawmakers sent to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday.

The work on the abducted children by the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab was frozen when President Trump signed an executive order in late January halting almost all foreign aid spending. Since then, Mr. Rubio and an official under him, Pete Marocco, have ended the vast majority of foreign aid contracts, including the one to the Yale lab.

The bipartisan congressional letter, signed by 17 lawmakers and organized by Representative Greg Landsman, Democrat of Ohio, said that "the foreign aid freeze has jeopardized, and may ultimately eliminate, our informational support of Ukraine on this front."

The State Department and the Yale center "had been preserving evidence of abducted children from Ukraine it had identified, to be shared with Europol and the government of Ukraine to secure their return," the letter said, according to a copy obtained by The New York Times. Europol is the main law enforcement agency of the European Union. The letter was also addressed to Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary.

"We have reason to believe that the data from the repository has been permanently deleted," it said. "If true, this would have devastating consequences. Can you please update us as to the status of the data from the evidence repository?"

A person familiar with the Yale center's work said the details in the letter were accurate.

Trump Administration Ends Tracking of Kidnapped Ukrainian Children in Russia - The New York Times

Trump is effectively allowing human trafficking of children and yet he had the gall to throw stones at Epstein and his island when this is no better but destroying evidence.