“They haven’t really told me anything useful,” East Palestine resident Nathan Velez told Fox News’s “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Monday.

“Russia’s federal government has systematically relocated at least 6,000 children from Ukraine to a network of re-education and adoption facilities in Russia-occupied Crimea and mainland Russia,” the report reads. 

Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova dismissed the claims as “absolutely unfounded and unsubstantiated.”

“We learned nothing that I didn’t already know as a member of the Intelligence Committee and Armed Services Committee or, for that matter, that one could learn from reading your newspapers,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told the Daily Caller News Foundation. 

“What is so egregious about this particular targeting is that it was done by the very federal institution that is home to our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and the Bill of Rights – the exact documents that call on our government to protect the freedoms of speech and religion, not trample on them,” the ACLJ said in a press release.

“It is estimated that between 75–80% of newly arriving unaccompanied children are victims of human trafficking, as they travel into the U.S. with smugglers who then sell them into forced labor or prostitution,” according to a 2018 study.

“Government scientists and government-funded researchers have so far been less-than-forthcoming in their knowledge and actions, including work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and potential pandemic pathogens,” Wenstrup wrote.

“These were decisions based purely and simply on what was in the best interests of the American people,” National Security Spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Monday.

The Level 4 warning, which is the highest travel alert issued by the U.S. government, cites potential “unpredicted consequences” of increased fighting and the heightened potential for wrongful detention and terrorism.