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Yale report: Gazprom, Rosneft involved in deportations of 2,000 Ukrainian children

Russian state giants Gazprom and Rosneft helped transport and politically indoctrinate at least 2,158 Ukrainian children from territories under Russian occupation between 2022 and 2025, RFE/RL reported on March 25, citing the Yale School of Public Health.

26 March, 02:49 AM

Yale study exposes Russia’s vast network of camps for kidnapped Ukrainian kids - NV analysis

Yale researchers have named an exact — though not final — number of facilities where Russians train abducted Ukrainian minors to fight and assemble drones, NV wrote in its analysis, published on Sept. 16.

16 September 2025, 09:31 AM

Russia holds 35,000 abducted Ukrainian children — Yale research

Russian authorities may be hosting as many as 35,000 children abducted from occupied Ukrainian territory, according to the Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL), ran under the auspices of the Yale School of Public Health.

27 June 2025, 11:48 PM

Yale project tracking stolen Ukrainian children shuts down after Trump cuts funding

A leading organization monitoring Russia’s abduction of Ukrainian children — the Conflict Observatory at Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab — will cease operations on July 1 as Trump administration cuts its funding, CNN reported on June 11.

12 June 2025, 09:07 AM

U.S. cuts funding for Yale team tracking abducted Ukrainian kids

The U.S. State Department has halted funding for a team of Yale University researchers that tracked the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia and helped return hundreds of them, British outlet The i Paper reported on March 14.

15 March 2025, 03:58 PM

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