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The US government has defended one program and left another that they both documents that Russian war crimes in Ukraine are claimed.
The Trump administration has reduced the funding of the University of Humanitarian Studies Laboratory, which has described in detail the mass deportation of Ukrainian children in Russia.
He also withdrew from a multinational group designed to explore the leaders responsible for the invasion of Russia in Ukraine, including President Vladimir Putin.
These moves come after Trump talks to Putin and Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski to negotiate the termination of fire in Ukraine, overcoming with the previous approach of the US administration to try to hold Putin responsible for the Russian invasion.
The Humanitarian Research Laboratory said in a statement that they had been informed that “government funding for their work in the war in Ukraine has been discontinued.”
A bilateral group of 17 congress members withdrew from the reduction of funding for HRL, saying that their work is a “vital resource” to preserve evidence for children abducted by Ukraine.
In a letter to the Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Minister of Finance Scott Bensten, the legislators said HRL had drawn up data for 30,000 children abducted by Ukraine and was “absolutely decisive” to ensure that they were returning home.
It states that these abductions are done against the background of “to reduce the US leadership in counteracting these crimes.”
He added that HRL’s work could be credited to being the basis for the Putin International Criminal Court’s accusation for abducting Ukrainian children.
The US Department of State responded to the letter, saying it did not delete any of the data collected by HRL.
On Wednesday, Trump’s press secretary Carolyn Levitt replied to claims that the US government had reduced HRL funding, saying that the White House had nothing to do with them.
She added that Trump was talking to Volodimir Zelenski about abducted children and promised to “work closely” with both Russian and Ukrainian countries to ensure that these children return home.
But the United States has also withdrawn from the International Crime Pursuit of Aggression Pursuit against Ukraine (ICPA).
In a statement, the European Union Agency for Cooperation in Criminal Justice – the ICPA parent organization – confirmed to the BBC that it had been informed by US authorities that they were leaving the program.
ICPA was created to keep Russian leaders responsible for the “crime aggression” in Ukraine, according to their website, and to maintain evidence and to prepare cases for their trials in the future.
In addition to them, Reuters said several US national security agencies have stopped working on coordinated efforts to counteract Russian cyberattacks and misinformation.
