Members of Congress this week are trying to pick up the pieces of a project that had been tracking Ukrainian children abducted by Russia — research that was derailed in January when the Trump administration abruptly froze its funding.
Lawmakers funded the effort to track forced removals of Ukrainian children soon after Russia launched its full assault on the nation in 2022. Now, it’s not clear if three years of work — and data about tens of thousands of children — was thrown out the window due to the administration’s funding freeze.
Members of Congress want the U.S. government to continue to support the research, which has helped Ukrainian organizations seeking to rescue Ukrainian kids from Russia.