Trump U-turns on team hunting for 20,000 Ukrainian children stolen by Russia ...Middle East

The dramatic reversal comes after the The i Paper first revealed that US government funding for a vital programme run by Yale University that helps locate children abducted by Russians was cancelled amid Elon Musk’s slashing of the federal budget.

Ukrainian children returned home as part of the President of Ukraine’s initiative, Bring Kids Back UA.(Photo: Ombudsman’s Office of Ukraine)

According to The Washington Post, the Yale team will now have its funding temporarily reinstated for six weeks to ensure it can complete the process of transferring evidence of potential Russian war crimes to Europe’s law enforcement agency Europol.

It is not clear what will happen to the Yale programme once this temporary funding expires in May and whether its investigative work will be able to continue.

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Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed the UK will “do everything” it can to help end the “sickening” and “grotesque” abduction of Ukrainian children by Russia.

Around 1,240 children have so far been repatriated, according to Bring Kids Back UA, an initiative launched by Zelensky to rescue all children from deportation and occupation.

The Kremlin denies wrongdoing, claiming the adoptions by Russians are to help “abandoned” children.The US State Department, Yale University and the Ukrainian Embassy in London have been approached for comment.

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