#Trump admin cuts undermine efforts to track abducted Ukrainian children
U.S. foreign assistance cuts and sanctions against the International Criminal Court are obstructing efforts to track and recover thousands of #UkrainianChildren taken by #Russian forces during the ongoing war, a senior European official warned on July 17, according to Politico.
Thordis Gylfadottir, an envoy of the Council of Europe, said the end of U.S. financial support to monitoring programs has complicated the search for more than 19,500 Ukrainian children who have been unlawfully #deported or #forcibly transferred to #Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
According to Ukraine's official Bring Kids Back UA initiative, 19,546 children are confirmed abducted. Only 1,399 children have been brought back to Ukraine as of July 2025.
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Trump admin cuts undermine efforts to track abducted Ukrainian children, Council of Europe envoy says
"European countries will have to fund it," Thordis Gylfadottir, an envoy of the Council of Europe, told Politico. "We cannot stop tracking them and then just re-track them (abducted children) in the months ahead."Anna Fratsyvir (The Kyiv Independent)
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