The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has completed funding to track thousands of Ukrainian children who were kidnapped by Russia, and the American officials or contractors may delete a database with information about them, according to a message that American lawmakers plan to send to Foreign Minister Rubio on Wednesday.
Work was frozen on kidnapped children by the YALE Public Health Laboratory when President Trump signed an executive order in late January, which stopped spending on foreign aid. Since then, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and an official under his leadership have ended the Maroco House, the vast majority of foreign aid contracts, including the contract to Yale Laboratory.
“The freezing of external aid has been at risk, and it may eventually cancel our information support for Ukraine on this front,” said the speech of Congress, organized by actor Greg Lansman, a democratic in Ohio.
The letter said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Yale Center “were maintaining evidence for the kidnapped children from Ukraine, which it identified, to be shared with Europol and the Ukraine government to secure their return,” according to the letter, according to a copy obtained by the New York Times. Europol is the main law enforcement agency in the European Union.
“We have a reason to believe that the data from the warehouse has been permanently deleted,” he said. “If this is true, this will have devastating consequences. Can you update us in relation to the state of the evidence of the evidence?”
A person familiar with the Yale Center’s work said the details in the message were accurate.
The Yale Laboratory was one of the many beneficiaries of $ 26 million in financing Congress over three years through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to track the war crimes committed by the Russian forces in Ukraine. This work began in 2022 as part of a program called the conflict Observatory.
In search of kidnapped children, the “nomination sites” that were transferred to it and others in Ukraine occupied by Russian, where the Ukrainians were interrogated and prepared to deport to Russia. Researchers used open source information and commercial satellite images.
Yale University researchers assembled the database, called Caesar, so that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs could share information about the kidnapped children with Europol and the International Criminal Court, which could eventually charge concerns against Russian officials. In 2022, after Russia began to invade it widely to Ukraine, President Joseph R. accused. Biden Junior Russian committed “genocide”.
Ukrainian officials say Russia has kidnapped 20,000 children from Ukraine. Researchers at Yale University said in previous reports that they had followed 30,000 children to sites outside Ukraine. They put the information in the database on 6000 children who were transferred to Russia and more than 2,400 Laharussia. Database contains detailed information about 314 kidnapped children in Russia: their names and pictures, and files ranging from 20 to 30 pages on each child.
Some results were previously revealed in Yale’s general reports. The center also provided information about the children to the Ukrainian government.
The main contractor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs project is MetrIt is a non -profit organization that mainly works for the US government, including intelligence agencies. Yale’s testing had a contract under it.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to a request to comment on the project and the database status. Metri also did not respond.
In July 2023, a Russian official said Russia has 700,000 children brought From the conflict areas in Ukraine to Russia.
YALE researchers have not been able to work in the project since the funding began to freeze in late January. When the United States government stopped arms aid and intelligence participation with Ukraine after President Trump reprimanded Voludmir Zelinsky at the White House on February 28 and the President of Ukraine, researchers at Yale University lost access to satellite images.
The Trump administration has restarted intelligence and arms aid after a meeting in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia this month between us and Ukrainian officials. But Yale researchers still cannot access satellite images.
Mr. Trump is trying to agree with President Vladimir F. Putin from Russia, the two spoke on the phone on Tuesday. Mr. Trump said he wanted to arrange a 30 -day ceasefire in Ukraine, which was agreed upon by the Ukrainians, but Mr. Putin said he would temporarily stop the strikes on energy infrastructure.
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