Funding for a U.S.-based program that tracks thousands of Ukrainian children allegedly abducted and taken to Russia has been cut and U.S. lawmakers are worried that a database with crucial information has been permanently deleted, according to a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed by more than 15 lawmakers.
"This data is absolutely crucial to Ukraine's efforts to return their children home …The foreign aid freeze has jeopardized, and may ultimately eliminate, our informational support of Ukraine on this front," the letter states.
In an email to NPR on Wednesday, a Yale University spokesperson acknowledged that funding for the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL)'s work on the war in Ukraine, which included the research on the abducted children, has been "discontinued."
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