Group for persecution of Russian kidnaps of Ukrainian children is faced with closure

Group for persecution of Russian kidnaps of Ukrainian children is faced with closure

The leading institution for persecution of alleged Russian war crimes in war against Ukraine , including the kidnapping of Ukrainian children, has its data to the Ukrainian government and the US foreign minister hand over. This happens while you are prepared for the closure of the facility in the coming weeks after the Trump administration has set the financing.

closure of Ukraine Conflict Observatory

"We are currently working at the limit, we have about two weeks left, mainly through individual donations from our website. From July 1st we will be released our entire staff in Ukraine and other teams, and our work to persecute the children will officially end. We are waiting for our dark moment, for someone who saves us so that we can try to save the children," said Nathaniel Raymond, who explained, " Managing Director of the Humanitrian Research Lab on the Yale School of Public Health, opposite CNN.

Overview of the collected data

The Ukraine Conflict Observatory, a project by the Humanitrian Research Lab from Yale, has collected data in the Ukraine on Ukraine with the support of funds from the Foreign Ministry in the more than three years. The project was launched in May 2022 "to record, analyze and make other atrocities committed by Russia and other atrocities in Ukraine."

Important information on the kidnapping of Ukrainian children

The database currently includes information and identities of over 30,000 Ukrainian children, which were allegedly kidnapped by Russia in more than 100 locations. The closure of this initiative will leave a significant knowledge gap, since no other body has followed the kidnapping of Ukrainian children so precisely.

support for international investigations

The work of the laboratory contributed to the support of six charges in front of the International Criminal Court against Russia, including two that relate to the kidnapping of children, says Raymond.

Financing Gaspass and their consequences

At the beginning of this year, the financing of the initiative was discontinued as part of savings in the Department of Government Efficiency, whereby the researchers on Yale Marco Rubio was restored for a short time to ensure that the data is transferred to the European Union's law enforcement agency, Europol, so that they can be used as evidence in future war crimes.

planned handover to Europol

The transfer to Europol is expected to take place within a few hours or days, now that the data and evidence of the alleged war crimes - including attacks on energy infrastructure, filter systems and civilian infrastructure - were finalized by the researchers to Yale and shared with the Foreign Ministry, reports a source familiar with the data.

future efforts to finance

The efforts to keep the program have mobilized a large number of individuals who are looking for private sources of financing to continue the initiative. Members of the congress have spoken out this year for the work of the observatory and its necessity and plan to urge administration not to shorten the financing again, according to employees of the congress.

Prisoner swaps and the risks for future data

In the meantime, Ukraine and Russia have Soldiers who spent almost the entire duration of the war back home. However, a termination of the war seems unreachable for the time being. Without future data from the initiative - which comes from satellite images and biometric data - the efforts to relieve the Ukrainian children captured in the future could be significantly more difficult.