Overview

• Over 19,500 cases of Ukrainian children being unlawfully deported by Russia have been reported since the invasion began, with efforts to erase Ukrainian identity widely condemned as a war crime.
• President Trump assured Ukrainian President Zelensky of ongoing U.S. support in locating and repatriating abducted children during a March 20 phone call.
• The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, which has been instrumental in tracking these children and documenting evidence of war crimes, recently lost U.S. funding under the Trump administration.
• Trump has hinted at a possible policy shift, expressing willingness to address the issue even outside the structure of the defunded program.
• Approximately 1,240 children have been successfully repatriated, while concerns persist about securing critical data collected by Yale for future legal and humanitarian efforts.