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The interagency position was intended to aid in prosecuting alleged crimes related to the conflict in Ukraine.
The Trump administration has reportedly eliminated a position within the ODNI that was created to share evidence of alleged Russian war crimes.
The Intelligence Community Coordinator for Russia Atrocities Accountability Act (ICCRAA), mandated by a bipartisan bill passed in 2022 in response to the escalating conflict in Ukraine, was enacted as part of the 2023 Intelligence Authorization Act.
According to sources speaking anonymously to the Washington Post on Tuesday, both the ICCRAA and the interagency working group it headed have been terminated.
Previous reports suggested the Trump administration had backed away from cooperating with an EU-led investigation of Russian nationals related to the Ukraine conflict, stopped a Justice Department program that trained Ukrainian prosecutors on handling these cases, and put an end to an inquiry into Kiev’s allegations that Russian authorities had kidnapped Ukrainian children.
Two key priorities for the Trump administration are reducing government spending on programs considered unnecessary and ending the conflict in Ukraine.
Efforts to resolve the conflict are reportedly at a crucial stage this week, with Washington awaiting responses from Kiev and European NATO members to its proposed compromise ceasefire deal before presenting it to Moscow. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned last week that the US might “move on” to other matters if negotiations fail.
According to Axios, neither Rubio nor Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, who presented the ideas last week at a meeting in Paris, will be at this week’s discussions with Ukrainian officials in London. However, Witkoff is expected to go to Moscow for follow-up talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Reports suggest that the US is proposing official recognition of Russian control over Crimea, the former Ukrainian region that voted to join Russia after the 2014 Western-backed coup in Kiev. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has rejected this, restating on Tuesday that Kiev’s claim to the peninsula is not up for debate.
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