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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[image or embed] -- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) March 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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[image or embed]
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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. ...
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 | Reply
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 | Reply
@#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 | Reply
Fat Donnie Traitor sucks Putin's ----.
#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-24 10:14 PM | Reply
" 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 | Reply
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 | Reply
"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 | Reply
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 | Reply
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 | Reply
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 | Reply
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 | Reply
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 | Reply
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 | Reply
Daddysfist adores Doe 174.
#14 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-25 01:42 PM | Reply
"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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1
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#16 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-25 01:44 PM | Reply
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#17 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-25 01:45 PM | Reply
" 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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1
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 | Reply
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 | Reply
This is the main reason repugs loves Russia.
www.nbcnews.com
#21 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-25 01:53 PM | Reply
Donald Trump needs children to feed his pedo lifestyle.
Epstein trained him well.
#22 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-25 01:53 PM | Reply
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 | Reply
Ukraine was not a good place to be a child,
Looks like you're desperate to excuse kidnapping children. />
#24 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-25 02:00 PM | Reply
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 | Reply
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 | Reply
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