US recedes on war crimes tracking in Ukraine to end the war

The Trump administration has distanced itself from the previous administration’s leading role in the international community’s effort to document and preserve evidence of alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

The United States withdrew from an international body designed to document and preserve evidence for any future prosecutions for the crime of aggression against Russian leaders. Also, the State Department confirmed last week that it stopped funding a Yale University lab that had been tracking and documenting thousands of Ukrainian children who have been forcibly taken from their homes, transported to Russia, reeducated, and “adopted.”