Commemorating the heroic sacrifices of the people of Ukraine 3 years after Russian President Vladimir Putin's illegal and unprovoked war against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and recognizing the terrible cost of Russia's committing crimes against Humanity aggression.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 154 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 154

 Commemorating the heroic sacrifices of the people of Ukraine 3 years
  after Russian President Vladimir Putin's illegal and unprovoked war
against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and recognizing the terrible cost
       of Russia's committing crimes against Humanity aggression.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 24, 2025

 Ms. Kaptur (for herself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Quigley, and Mr. Wilson
   of South Carolina) submitted the following resolution; which was
              referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION

 Commemorating the heroic sacrifices of the people of Ukraine 3 years
  after Russian President Vladimir Putin's illegal and unprovoked war
against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and recognizing the terrible cost
       of Russia's committing crimes against Humanity aggression.

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
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) reaffirms its longtime commitment to the people of
        Ukraine and strong support for Ukraine as it defends itself
        against Russian aggression;
            (2) unequivocally condemns Vladimir Putin and his
        authoritarian regime;
            (3) stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine in
        commemoration of the terrible costs Ukraine has borne after 3
        years of brutal war;
            (4) recognizes the importance of Ukraine's historic fight
        for the security and prosperity of all nations on the continent
        of Europe and the United States;
            (5) commends the people of Ukraine who are sacrificing
        greatly as they seek to rejoin the world community of free,
        independent, and democratic Nations;
            (6) stands with the people of Ukraine to continue a range
        of substantive measures to prevent external direct and hybrid
        aggression against Ukraine and hold Russia accountable for
        aggression and violations of international law;
            (7) reaffirms to never recognize Russia's attempted
        annexation of Crimea and full support for international
        efforts, including in the Normandy Format, aimed at negotiating
        a diplomatic resolution to the Russia-led armed conflict in the
        Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine on the basis of respect
        for international law, including the UN Charter;
            (8) expresses the need to restore Ukrainian control over
        the Ukrainian territories temporarily occupied or controlled by
        Russia including Crimea and the Donetsk and Luhansk regions;
            (9) confirms the importance of the Budapest Memorandum of
        December 5, 1994, and calls on Russia to fulfill its previous
        commitments to respect Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial
        integrity within its internationally recognized borders;
            (10) works on building Ukraine's resilience against Russian
        aggression and reaffirmed the importance of the Minsk
        agreements to end Russian aggression against Ukraine;
            (11) supports creating security conditions for the full
        implementation of the Minsk Agreements;
            (12) aims at deepening Ukraine's integration into Euro-
        Atlantic institutions concurrent priorities; and
            (13) supports the United States-Ukraine Strategic
        Partnership Charter as a platform to advance United States and
        Ukraine strategic interests.
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