Data on war crimes in Ukraine deleted by the US State Department
A Yale University database, which also contained information on the abduction of 35,000 children, has been deleted, according to an insider.
(Image: janews/Shutterstock.com)
A database at Yale University in the USA containing information on war crimes in Ukraine is said to have been deleted. According to the Independent, information on the abduction of 35,000 children was also lost in the process. According to the information, the US State Department was responsible for the deletion.
The data included satellite images and other surveillance data from 116 locations in Ukraine. A source from Yale University told The Independent that the data will be used, among other things, to return abducted children to their homes and bring those responsible for war crimes to justice. Funding for the Humanitarian Research Laboratory, where the data was collected, was cut off by the US government last month. Furthermore, links to the Conflict Observatory program and reports presented on the Yale University website are no longer accessible.
Videos by heise
"It is unclear whether this was accidental or deliberate, but it could potentially make the Trump administration criminally liable given the international ban on destroying evidence of war crimes," the unidentified Yale University insider is quoted as saying by The Independent.
Previously, researchers had already had to stop sharing the data with the EU. There, they were used to support the Europol investigation and a Ukrainian aid organization that has already returned over 600 children from Russia.
(tlz)
