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The US #State Dept has ended funding for the tracking of tens of thousands of #UkrainianChildren abducted by #Russia, & American ofcls or contractors might have deleted a database w/info on them, acc/to a letter US lawmakers sent to Secy of State #MarcoRubio on Wednesday.
The work on the #abducted #children by the #Yale School of #PublicHealth #Humanitarian #Research Lab was frozen when #Trump signed an #ExecutiveOrder in late January halting almost all #ForeignAid. Since then, #MarcoRubio & an official under him, #PeteMarocco, have ended the vast majority of foreign #aid contracts, including the one to the Yale lab.
The bipartisan letter, signed by 17 lawmakers & organized by Representative Greg Landsman, #Democrat of Ohio, said that “the #ForeignAid freeze has jeopardized, & may ultimately eliminate, our informational support of #Ukraine on this front.”
The #State Dept & the Yale center “had been preserving evidence of #abducted #children from Ukraine it had identified, to be shared w/ #Europol & the govt of Ukraine to secure their return,” the letter says.
The letter cont, “We have reason to believe that the data from the repository has been permanently deleted. If true, this would have devastating consequences. Can you please update us as to the status of the data from the evidence repository?”
The Yale lab was one of several recipients of $26M in funding through the #State Dept to track #WarCrimes committed by #Russia in #Ukraine. Pages on the Conflict Observatory have been removed from State’s website under #MarcoRubio.