Whereas Russia initially, and without provocation, invaded the sovereign Nation of Ukraine in 2014 when it illegally annexed the Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk Oblasts;

Whereas, on February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his administration launched a violent full-scale invasion of Ukraine;

Whereas Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, intended to achieve Vladimir Putin’s goal of seizing all of sovereign Ukraine, has proven that Vladimir Putin’s goal will not stand or ever come to pass;

Whereas, after 3 years of war in Ukraine, the people of Ukraine continue to demonstrate their commitment to defeating the Russian Federation and building a just and free democratic country;

Whereas the war being perpetrated against Ukraine today takes place in the context of a long history of occupation and persecution against it by authoritarian powers including Russia, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany;

Whereas over 12,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed and nearly 29,178 injured by Russia’s unjustified war of aggression, wounded by deliberate and indiscriminate Russian strikes against Ukraine;

Whereas over 19,000 Ukrainian-born children have been illegally abducted by the Russian Federation and sympathizers and taken to Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine or Russia in an attempt to forcibly turn them into Russian citizens and erase their Ukrainian heritage and identities;

Whereas the full-scale war in Ukraine has displaced nearly 4 million people inside the country and 6.8 million people into neighboring countries or other countries globally;

Whereas more than 14,600,000 people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Ukraine, representing over one quarter of Ukraine’s pre-war population;

Whereas the total value of direct damage and destruction to Ukraine’s infrastructure as a result to Russia’s full-scale war to educational institutions, museums, religious institutions, energy sector, and cultural sites, medical facilities, residential building and homes, entertainment arenas, digital and telecommunications sector, agricultural sector, businesses, government buildings and more is estimated to be over $400,000,000,000;

Whereas over 100,000 instances of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by Russian forces, including the intentional targeting of civilians, sexual violence, torture, mass murder, and other crimes against humanity, have been recorded and verified;

Whereas the international community expressed concerns about the whereabouts and treatment of Ukrainians in Russian filtration camps who were possibly detained in unknown locations at high risk of torture and ill-treatment;

Whereas the International Criminal Court has indicted Vladimir Putin for his role in the war crime of unlawful deportation of children and transfer from Ukraine to Russia, and the United States has determined that Russia committed crimes against humanity during its war in Ukraine;

Whereas the involvement of China, Iran, and North Korea in furthering the violence being committed against the people of Ukraine, is evidence of the increasing coordination of an emerging Axis of Tyranny, whose primary intention is to sow instability at the expense of innocent civilians and as a means of undermining the security of the free world;

Whereas aside from individual international volunteers, Ukraine has fought this war entirely with Ukrainian personnel;

Whereas with aid from the United States and its allies, Ukraine has liberated territories that was once occupied by Russia;

Whereas Ukraine has destroyed as much as 40 percent of Russia’s entire fighting military forces, including over 300,000 Russian casualties or as much as 90 percent of Russia’s estimated initial invasion force; and

Whereas, since Ukraine’s successful repulsing of Russia’s initial invasion, the Ukrainian people have inspired the world through its heroic stand for democratic values: Now, therefore, be it