Investigating Russia's War Crimes Against Ukrainian Children
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The researchers at Yale\'s Humanitarian Research Lab gather in a carpeted underground bunker, beneath the campus library, to steadily gather evidence of Russia\'s alleged war crimes. In a report published earlier this year, in collaboration with the State Department, they presented evidence of the Russian government operating more than 40 child custody centers for Ukrainian children who have been forcibly removed from their homes to Russia. On the other hand, Russia\'s embassy in Washington has claimed that the children were forced to flee to safety due to the war. About a month later, on March 17, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting children from Ukraine. For this week\'s midweek podcast, we\'re airing a piece by our guest co-host Deborah Amos, first broadcast by NPR\'s Morning Edition in February,\\xa0in which she\\xa0reported on the devastating evidence unearthed\\xa0by the Yale researchers, and what this means for leveraging accountability against Putin.\\xa0
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