Group for persecution of Russian kidnaps of Ukrainian children stand before the end

Group for persecution of Russian kidnaps of Ukrainian children stand before the end

The leading body tracking service, the alleged Russian war crime in documented against Ukraine , including the kidnapping of Ukrainian children. Hand over the US State Department. This happens while the organization is preparing for the closure in the coming weeks after the Trump administration has set its financing.

difficult financial situation

"At the moment we are running on a back burner, we have about two weeks left, mainly through individual donations on our website. From July 1st, we will deploy our entire staff in Ukraine and other teams, and our work to persecute the children officially ends. We are waiting for our dark moment that someone saves us so that we can try to save the children," said Nathaniel Raymond, the managing director of the Humanitrian Research Lab on the Yale School of Public Health, compared to Cnn.

The role of Ukraine Conflict Observatory

The Ukraine Conflict Observatory, which is led by the Humanitrian Research Lab to Yale, has collected data over three years that document the Russian invasion in Ukraine, supported by the funding of the State Ministry. The initiative was founded in May 2022 to record, analyze and make evidence of war crimes committed by Russia and other atrocities in Ukraine.

Sustainable effects of closure

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

The work of the laboratory contributed to the obtaining six international charges against Russia, including two in connection with the kidnapping of children.

financing withdrawal and hope for a solution

At the beginning of the year, the financing of the initiative was discontinued as part of savings by the Ministry of Administrative Efficiency. As a result, the researchers at Yale lost access to the database. However, the financing was briefly restored by Foreign Minister Marco Rubio to ensure that the data is handed over to the European Union, Europol's law enforcement agency, so that they can be used as evidence in future war breakdowns.

transfer of data to Europol

The transfer to Europol is expected to take place within a few hours or days after the data and evidence of the alleged war crimes - including attacks on the energy infrastructure, filter stations and civilian infrastructure - were finalized by the researchers to Yale.

political support and private financing

The efforts to keep the program have mobilized a variety of individuals who are looking for private funding to continue the initiative. Members of the congress have defended the need for the work of the observatory and plan to ask the government not to delete the financing again.

Current developments

In the meantime, Ukraine and Russia have started with Soldiers who were in captivity almost the entire period of war return home. But the efforts to exit war seem to be unreachable at the moment. Without future data from the initiative - which are obtained from satellite images and biometric data - the efforts to exempate the Ukrainian children of the Ukrainian children could be severely hindered.