Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Trump Admin Halts Program to Track Abducted Ukranian Kids

Data about 30,000 abducted children may be gone for good. Cut came as Trump administration slashes programs. Lawmakers also want sanctions on those responsible. Russia says children are moved as protection from war.

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Mike Waltz can't explain why the State Department cut off funding to a program that finds Ukrainian kids who were abducted by the Putin regime

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-- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) March 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM

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... Democratic U.S. lawmakers will call on President Donald Trump's administration to restore a program that helps track thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and to use sanctions to punish those responsible for the rights violation.

As it slashes a wide range of U.S. government programs and most foreign aid, the Republican president's administration has ended a government-funded initiative led by Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab (Yale HRL) that tracked the mass deportation of children from Ukraine, the lawmakers said.

That decision meant researchers have lost access to a trove of information, including satellite imagery and other data, about some 30,000 children taken from Ukraine.

"We have reason to believe that the data from the repository has been permanently deleted. If true, this would have devastating consequences," the Democratic lawmakers, led by Ohio Representative Greg Landsman, said in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent seen by Reuters on Tuesday and due to be sent on Wednesday.

Trump's termination of the program and the letter were first reported in The Washington Post. It became public the same day that Trump spoke by telephone to Russian President Vladimir Putin in which Russia stopped short of agreeing to a 30-day cessation of hostilities. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-24 10:10 PM

Trump is selling out Ukraine piece by piece, child by child.

He's one dedicatedly evil SOB.

And Ukrainian Children Thank You, Trumpers!

You must be SO proud that YOU did this.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-24 10:11 PM

@#1 ... Democratic U.S. lawmakers ...

Don't the Republican U.S. lawmakers care about children?

Why aren't hey asking similar questions?


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-24 10:12 PM

Fat Donnie Traitor sucks Putin's ----.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-24 10:14 PM

" Democratic U.S. lawmakers will call on President Donald Trump's administration to restore a program that helps track thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and to use sanctions to punish those responsible for the rights violation."

Apparently ith this.Republicans are fine with this?

#5 | Posted by danni at 2025-03-25 08:46 AM

F*&! children!

We need the money for tax cuts for corporations and individuals who don't need them and pay little anyway thru tax schemes.

- MAGA & GOP

#6 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-03-25 11:04 AM

"Russia says children are moved as protection from war."
If they wanted to protect the children then they would get the hell out of Ukraine!V
. Russians raped, murdered and tortured hundreds or even thousands of children during their brutal invasion of Iraq. If they really cared about the children they could just get the hell out of Ukraine! But they don't care about anyone.They could, at least, keep records about where they send the children but they don't because they are evil scum!
Total

#7 | Posted by danni at 2025-03-25 11:36 AM

Republicans don't think we should help rescue those poor kidnapped white children.

They really just don't care.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-25 12:27 PM

people who didnt give a rat's ass about the 30 thousand or so missing kids kidnapped and forced into

slavery from the US and Mexico when someone OTHER than Biden when the brain dead vegetable was potus are suddenly concerned

over children in Ukraine.

nothing says DR clientele lie 2 faced lying hypocrites

#9 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-03-25 01:35 PM

Russians raped, murdered and tortured hundreds or even thousands of children during their brutal invasion of Iraq.

granni your slip is showing

#10 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-25 01:36 PM

Trump needs kids for the new Epstein Island.

You didn't think that all stopped just because Epstein was shown to be dead on some grainy surveillance footage.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-25 01:38 PM

In the United States, approximately 460,000 children are reported missing each year.

You are here, paying taxes to satanist vampire pedos. Probably shouldn't judge others.

#12 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-25 01:39 PM

FBI's weekend homework: Redact the Epstein Files
CNN
www.cnn.com 2025 politics fbi-reda...
3 days ago " FBI agents are working around the clock " some in 12-hour overnight shifts " on a frenzied mission this week.

#13 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-25 01:41 PM

Daddysfist adores Doe 174.

#14 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-25 01:42 PM

"people who didnt give a rat's ass about the 30 thousand or so missing kids kidnapped and forced into
slavery"

We missed where Trump gave a rat's ass about that.
Can you clue us in?

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-25 01:42 PM

Young Blood Rejuvenates Old Bodies: A Call for Reflection ...
National Institutes of Health (NIH) (.gov)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov articles PMC5836258
by B Hofmann 2018 Cited by 31 " Connecting the circulatory system of old and young mice (parabiosis) is documented to have rejuvenating effects on cells, tissues, organs, and functions.

#16 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-25 01:44 PM

Will Revitalizing Old Blood Slow Aging?
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu news will-revitalizi...
Feb 1, 2023 " Young blood has a rejuvenating effect when infused into older bodies, according to recent research: Aging hearts beat stronger, muscles become stronger, and ...

#17 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-25 01:45 PM

" are suddenly concerned
over children in Ukraine."

The concern for kids in Ukraine is not sudden.
It's been there from the start of the war.
The concern is Trump suddenly ending American efforts to return the kidnaped kids to their families.

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-25 01:45 PM

Exactly how do you think these elitists manage to survive their expiration dates? Clean living?
lol.

#19 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-25 01:47 PM

Trump suddenly ending American efforts to return the kidnaped kids to their families war zones and trafficking centers.

#20 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-25 01:51 PM

This is the main reason repugs loves Russia.

www.nbcnews.com

#21 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-25 01:53 PM

In the United States, approximately 460,000 children are reported missing each year.

Donald Trump needs children to feed his pedo lifestyle.

Epstein trained him well.

#22 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-25 01:53 PM

Ukraine was not a good place to be a child, even before the war-

Ukraine's lost children: Odessa's homeless kids
YouTube The Guardian
123.3K+ views 13 years ago
15:08
Film-maker Antony Butts spent a week in Ukraine living with Odessa's homeless children - and with the police unit tasked with tracking down ...
Ukraine's teens living underground to stay alive | Unreported ...
YouTube Unreported World
5.5M+ views 7 years ago
23:15
Underneath the city's Soviet apartment buildings -------- pipes were keeping the street children alive.
Ukraine's children of the underground
YouTube Street Child United
55K+ views 12 years ago
5:23
Ahead of UEFA Euro 2012 Street Child World Cup visited two young men living on the streets who were unable to break the cycle of ..

#23 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-25 01:55 PM

Ukraine was not a good place to be a child,

Looks like you're desperate to excuse kidnapping children.
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#24 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-25 02:00 PM

Trump suddenly ending American efforts to return the kidnaped kids ...

At least you have admitted that they were kidnapped. You obviously still don't have enough compassion to want America to help those poor children there.

Baby steps.

#25 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-25 02:18 PM

Itchypus is giving logical fallacies a bad name again. But hey, when it's all ya got....

#26 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-25 02:35 PM

Republicans don't think we should help rescue those poor kidnapped white children.

They really just don't care.

#8 | Posted by snoofy

They aren't zygotes. Republicans stop caring about human life once a baby's born.

#27 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-03-25 05:15 PM

"Underneath the city's Soviet apartment buildings -------- pipes were keeping the street children alive.
Ukraine's children of the underground.

"Oh, I see, in that respect Ukraine is mu like the United States.but

But I do wonder if those kids were better off or worse off before the Russians invaded and destroye thousands of buildings.

I Putin too.

#28 | Posted by danni at 2025-03-25 07:34 PM

You're all over the place there Granni.

Let's just say, the kids that made it to Russia are fine. The ones still stuck in the Ukraine, maybe not so fine.

#29 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-25 08:01 PM

#29 - Let's just say that the kids that made it to Russia are likely being trafficked. The creation and distribution of child pornography is perfectly legal in Russia. Child prostitution is common among the Russian gangs. Ukraine was no picnic but better for these kids than being used up before you hit puberty and then dying from a fentenyl overdose scumbag.

Also from your 430k missing statistic, how many have returned home and then runaway again? I've dealt with habitual runaways, taking report after report everytime they run, and taking them out of the system, when they come home. Or sometimes they stay in the system because their parents neglect to call the police and cancel the missing person report. These kids are not being kidnapped, some sadly are being trafficked because they get hooked on drugs, but your numbers are way out of whack.

#30 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2025-03-25 08:38 PM

Putin was specifically indicted by the ICC for the "unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children." His personnel are "Russifying" them. Trumpf cut the funding for investigating these crimes and one of the investigatory websites is already down:

suspilne.media

www.icc-cpi.int

www.pravda.com.ua

#31 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-26 02:36 AM

"Let's just say, the kids that made it to Russia are fine."

Let's just say they aren't your kids so you don't give a flying F about them.

You maroons don't even care about American children (after they are born) especially if they aren't yours so why on earth would anyone expect you to care about some FOREIGN children in a FOREIGN land.

#32 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-26 02:00 PM

"Let's just say, the kids that made it to Russia are fine."

Let's just say, the slaves that survived the trip across the Atlantic are fine.

Same energy.

#33 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-26 02:36 PM

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