The State Department cut funding for a program that had been tracking tens of thousands of Ukrainian children who had been abducted from their homes and taken to Russia during the war, the department’s spokeswoman confirmed on Wednesday.

Tammy Bruce, the department’s top spokeswoman, indicated to reporters that the program, Yale’s School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab, was not aligned with the administration’s foreign policy plans and was cut, like several other related programs and grants.