In yesterday’s call between Trump and President Zelensky, the US leader raised the subject of the abducted children to reassure the Ukrainian’s head of state he would continue cooperating on this issue .
The commitment comes days after The i Paper revealed that US government funding for a vital programme helping to locate the children stolen by Russians was cancelled amid Elon Musk’s slashing of the federal budget .
Campaigners protest with symbolic toys to raise awareness of the Ukranian children stolen by Russia.
At a press conference after the call between Trump and Zelensky, US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce was asked about the future of the Yale programme.
Bruce added: “You’ve got the Presidents of the nations involved in the issue talking about it personally on the phone – the president of the most powerful country in the world saying, “I’m going to do something here. I’m going, we’re going to work on this” – I think that’s a pretty good, clear indication that we can still work on issues that matter and make them happen without it being in a certain structure that has existed.”
Since Russian invaded Ukraine there have been more than 19,500 reports of “unlawful deportation and forced transfer of children”, with campaigners claiming Russia is taking the children to erase Ukrainian culture and indoctrinate the younger generation into a pro-Russia mindset.
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The team at Yale tracked down a further 314 children according to their most recent report in December.
Bruce said: “The data exists. It was not in the State Department’s control. It was the people running that framework, but we know who is running the data and the website, and we know fully that the data exists and it’s not been deleted and it’s not missing.”
The i Paper contacted the White House, US embassy in London and Yale University for comment.
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