DOGE Musk Stops Funding Task Force to Find Ukrainian Children Kidnapped by Russia — Media

The Telegraph reports this with reference to a representative of Yale University, Ukrinform reports.

“Researchers at the Humanities Research Laboratory (HRL) recently received notice that government funding for their work related to the war in Ukraine has been cut off,” a Yale University spokesman said.

HRL researches humanitarian crises around the world using data analysis from domestic sources and remote sensing, the spokesperson said.

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The Yale team reportedly helped identify the abducted children by working with the Bring Kids Back UA initiative launched by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. In total, about 1,240 children were returned.

It is noted that the issue of the abduction of Ukrainian children has been raised on Capitol Hill more than once, including by senior Democrat Dick Durbin.

“War brings out the worst in people. And Russia, under the bloody leadership of Vladimir Putin, has committed some of the worst wartime atrocities imaginable,” he said.

As reported by Ukrinform, earlier, the Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets stated that since the full-scale invasion, the Russian Federation has deported or forcibly resettled 19,546 Ukrainian children. As of January 28, the Bring Kids Back UA initiative has returned 1,037 illegally removed Ukrainian children from Russia to their homeland.

On March 14, Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Daria Zarivna reported that within the framework of the initiative of the President of Ukraine Bring Kids Back UA, four more Ukrainian children were returned from the territories temporarily occupied by Russians, where they were subjected to pressure, intimidation and forced Russification.

President Volodymyr Zelensky previously claimed that Yale University researchers had identified hundreds of Ukrainian children from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions abducted by Russia since February 2022.