The State Department denied deleting data on Russian abduction of Ukrainian children

The information collected under the auspices of the University of Yale on the abduction of children from the occupied Ukrainian territories was not removed despite the cessation of funding.

Source: This was announced at a briefing on March 19 by a spokeswoman for Temma Bruce State Department, “European Truth” reports

Details: Bruce confirmed that the US administration stopped financial support for the initiative under the direction of the Yale University Humanities Laboratory, which tracked the mass deportation of children from Ukraine.

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“Financing was reduced on the basis of estimates that we made about all funding, whether it was in line with our vision of assistance to US interests,” she confirmed.

“I can say that conspiracy theories or fear about the fact that some data have been deleted. It is not so. The data are not, they were not in charge of the State Department, we know who managed the data and the site. We know exactly that the data is not deleted or lost,” the spokesman said.

Earlier, a group of Democrats stated that there were about 30,000 children from Ukraine after the cessation of funding from the United States.

We will remind, in March 2023 the Chamber of Pre-trial proceedings of the II International Criminal Court in March issued warrants for the arrest of the head of Russia Vladimir Putin and Maria Lviv-Bielova, who is the authorized President of the Russian Federation on the rights of the child and which is also accused of military crimes and illegal.

In December 2024, during the Presidency of Joe Biden, the US State Department announced the imposition of visa sanctions against five persons related to forced deportation, movement and imprisonment of Ukrainian children.