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Effort to trace/rescue thousands of children kidnapped from Ukraine to Russia was crippled by the US State Department’s - Tiangou - 03-20-2025 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trump-ukraine-children-russia-war-kidnapping-evidence-b2717730.html Using satellite imagery and other surveillance systems provided through the US government, the Yale researchers were monitoring 116 sites in Russia. A Yale source said the US state department deleted the evidence which would have been used as part of rescue efforts to get the children home to Ukraine. It would also have been used to prosecute those behind their abductions – including Russian president Vladimir Putin... Researchers and lawyers working with the Yale project have also had to stop sharing the data with the European Union which is also investigating the abduction of children through EUROPOL. “They	deleted the crime base on the arrest warrant on Putin... whether they did it by accident, or they did it on purpose it's a hell of a favour,” the Yale source told The Independent. “The worst part of this is not that it screws up prosecution, that's bad. The worst part is that it screws up our active efforts to try to get the kids back across the front line, physically,” they added... The Yale university project had been one of the US state departments most important contributions to international law and the prosecution of alleged war crimes. It had produced 16 major reports on Ukraine and contributed to six indictments at the ICC against Russians... “The 1996 Jones War Crimes Act, a federal criminal statute, prohibits all violations of the Geneva Convention as part of US criminal law. It is a war crime under Geneva to destroy evidence of a war crime,” the Yale expert told The Independent. Re: Effort to trace/rescue thousands of children kidnapped from Ukraine to Russia was crippled by the US State Departmen - Speedy - 03-20-2025 It is just beginning.