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Tue Mar 18, 2025, 01:33 PM Mar 2025

Is TSF providing cover for Putin war crimes against children? Is it inadvertent or another favor to Putin? [View all]

***I understand many don’t care for Raw Story but Washington Post has a paywall.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-putin-ukraine-2671352832/

Excerpt:

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the U.S. could be inadvertently helping Russian President Vladimir Putin cover up alleged Russian war crimes involving children.

The controversy revolves around a now terminated, U.S.-funded initiative that contained "a sensitive database detailing the mass deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia," The Post reported. The project was headed up by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab, but that contract was recently scrapped by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

When the it abruptly ended, researchers reported losing "access to a trove of information, including satellite imagery and biometric data tracking the identities and locations of as many as 35,000 children from Ukraine."

National security reporter John Hudson wrote that the researchers were no longer able to transmit "evidence to prosecutors pursuing multiple criminal cases, including the International Criminal Court’s landmark indictment of Russian President Vladimir Putin for what it has called the 'unlawful transfer' of children from occupied areas of Ukraine."

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