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Trump administration halts program to track abducted Ukrainian children, lawmakers say

Reuters · last updated

Democratic U.S. lawmakers will call on President Donald Trump’s administration to restore a program that helps track thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and to use sanctions to punish those responsible for the rights violation.

As it slashes a wide range of U.S. government programs and most foreign aid, the Republican president’s administration has ended a government-funded initiative led by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab (Yale HRL) that tracked the mass deportation of children from Ukraine, the lawmakers said.

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