{"id":1252754,"date":"2025-06-27T11:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T08:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-white-house-recommended-cutting-funding-for-russian-war-crimes-investigations\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T08:01:53","slug":"the-white-house-recommended-cutting-funding-for-russian-war-crimes-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-white-house-recommended-cutting-funding-for-russian-war-crimes-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"The White House recommended cutting funding for Russian war crimes investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The White House recommended stopping funding for programs investigating war crimes around the world and Russia&#8217;s actions against Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/white-house-wants-major-cut-us-war-crimes-accountability-funding-sources-say-2025-06-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was reported<\/a> by Reuters, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p> It is noted that the White House recommendation is not a final decision to eliminate the programs, as the State Department may appeal.<\/p>\n<p> However, two sources told Reuters that they doubted Secretary of State Marco Rubio would advocate for continued funding for most programs.<\/p>\n<p> Although another source indicates that the US Secretary of State could argue in favor of maintaining funding for the investigation of war crimes in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The White House has recommended cutting funding for Global Rights Compliance, a program that helps collect evidence of sexual violence and torture during the Russia-Ukraine war,&#8221; a Reuters source said.<\/p>\n<p> Another program that could go unfunded is the Legal Action Network, a legal aid group that brings cases against Russian military personnel.<\/p>\n<p> It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ssha-prypynyly-rozsliduvannia-voiennykh-zlochyniv-rf-v-ukraini\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Trump administration had canceled initiatives aimed at holding Russia, its leader, and allies accountable for war crimes in Ukraine<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow \u201c <strong>Pryamym<\/strong> \u201d on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House recommended stopping funding for programs investigating war crimes around the world and Russia&#8217;s actions against Ukraine. This was reported by Reuters, citing sources. It is noted that the White House recommendation is not a final decision to eliminate the programs, as the State Department may appeal. However, two sources told Reuters that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":877254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76873,76878],"class_list":["post-1252754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}