Religious leaders are urging the Trump administration to prioritize thousands of children who have been abducted by Russia during its bloody war in Ukraine.
In a letter to President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio Thursday, an early copy of which was obtained by NOTUS, a group of pastors and faith organizations lambasted Russian leader Vladimir Putin for forcibly transferring Ukrainian children to Russia — and urged the United States to help those children before finalizing any peace deal.
“To this day, the Russian government refuses to provide a list of the children it has taken, in direct violation of international law, while actively working to conceal these war crimes,” the letter states. “No peace deal should be finalized until Ukraine’s children are returned home.”