👥 After Donald Trump's return to the presidency, his administration began systematically rolling back U.S. efforts to hold Moscow accountable for war crimes in Ukraine.
🗂 Key decisions:
🛑 The coordination post for investigating Moscow's atrocities, created with bipartisan support in Congress in 2022, has been canceled.
🛑 The interagency group responsible for collecting evidence of Russian war crimes has ceased operations.
🛑 The Conflict Observatory initiative, which documented the abduction of Ukrainian children and their transfer to Moscow, has been rolled back.
🛑 The program for seizing the assets of Moscow's oligarchs has been closed.
🛑 The FBI unit combating foreign influence, which dealt with countering Russian campaigns in American politics, has been liquidated.
🛑 Support for the International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression in The Hague, where an American prosecutor worked, has been canceled.
ℹ️ These actions indicate that the U.S. is effectively withdrawing from the international legal fight against Moscow's crimes in Ukraine. This may undermine allies' trust, dismantle established coordination channels, and weaken Ukraine's position.