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00:00Will thousands of abducted Ukrainian children be left in Russia for good?
00:06The Trump administration cancelled funding for a program which documented the mass deportation
00:11of Ukrainian children to Russia.
00:14The U.S. State Department confirmed that funding was also cut for the Ukraine Conflict Observatory,
00:19which had been reporting alleged Russian war crimes.
00:22The White House says Trump promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky he would help
00:27bring abducted Ukrainian children home, but withdrawing support for the program tracking
00:31the children's whereabouts has stoked the ire of some U.S. lawmakers and researchers
00:36opposed to the move.
00:38The Trump administration, through either its incompetence or its intent, has now cast doubt
00:42on the validity of three years and $26 million of taxpayer-funded war crimes evidence.
00:53A Ukrainian initiative to return child abductees from Russia identified over 19,000 reports
00:59of forced transfers of minors.
01:02Zelensky has said that any peace agreement must include Russia's return of abducted children,
01:07which he believes constitutes a war crime that meets U.N. definitions of genocide.
01:13For its part, Russia says it's been evacuating people voluntarily and transferring children
01:17to protect them from conflict.
01:21The U.S. has not responded to a U.N. request for comment.
01:22The U.S. has not responded to a U.N. request for comment.