The State Department has preserved information on Ukrainian children abducted by the Russian government during its war in Ukraine that lawmakers feared had been deleted234bet, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday night.

Researchers at Yale University, who were tracking tens of thousands of abducted Ukrainian children, had created a database as one project under the State Department’s Conflict Observatory program during the Biden administration. In addition to tracking potential war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, the Conflict Observatory tracked the civil war in Sudan. Lawmakers feared that the database on the Ukrainian children had been deleted when the State Department cut funding for the group tracking the abductions.

“The data is secure,” Mr. Rubio told reporters on his plane flying from Suriname to Miami at the end of a three-nation tour of the Caribbean and South America. He said that the database would be transferred to “the appropriate party,” without specifying who, and that the program would no longer operate because the funding had been cut as part of a halt to almost all foreign aid when President Trump took office in January.

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The data is likely to be transferred to the International Criminal Court and Europol, Europe’s main law enforcement agency.

The Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab, which was tracking the abductions,7jogos had counted more than 30,000 children taken from Ukraine to Russia and Belarus since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022. When the funding ended in January, the lab had put information into the database on 6,000 children taken to Russia and more than 2,400 to Belarus. And researchers had put into the database detailed dossiers of 20 to 30 pages each on 314 kidnapped children traced to Russia’s coercive adoption and orphanage system.

Ukrainian officials say Russia has abducted 20,000 children from the country.

In 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and an aide, accusing them of war crimes over the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children. The Kremlin has denied accusations of war crimes but has not been secretive about the transfers of Ukrainian children to Russia.

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No body-camera footage or witness accounts were immediately available to support the police officers’ description of the shooting. A police spokesman said he did not have details about the bench warrant other than that it had been issued in Kings County in 2022.

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