Trump administration ends program to track kidnapped Ukrainian children in Russia, lawmakers say
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The U.S. State Department has ended funding for tracking thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, according to a letter by U.S. lawmakers.
The administration has ended a government-funded initiative led by Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab that tracked the mass deportation of children from Ukraine, meaning researchers have lost access to a significant amount of information — including satellite imagery — on roughly 30,000 children kidnapped 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 letter, led by Ohio Rep. Greg Landsman, said.
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Sen. Mark Kelly, a decorated Navy veteran as well as a former astronaut, finished a visit to Ukraine. Elon Musk hit back against Kelley's public opinions on the matter.
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