Whereas, according to conservative estimates from the United Nations, approximately 10,000 people have been killed, over 20,000 wounded, and nearly 2,000,000 internally displaced since the current conflict in Ukraine began in 2014; Whereas March 1, 2014, marks 3 years since the Government of the Russian Federation authorized military forces to illegally annex the Crimean region of Ukraine; Whereas the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances signed by the Russian Federation in December 1994 provided security assurances against the threats or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine; Whereas the United States and other countries stated in a letter to the United Nations that the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 was a violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity and thus was a breach of the Budapest Memorandum; Whereas, in September 2014, the Russian Federation signed the Minsk I Protocol, which called for an immediate cease-fire and effective monitoring by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE); Whereas, in February 2015, the Russian Federation signed the Minsk II Protocol, which again called for an immediate cease-fire, the withdrawal of heavy weapons, and effective monitoring by the OSCE; Whereas Russian, Ukrainian, and European representatives reaffirmed their commitment to the Minsk agreements at the 2017 Munich Security Conference; Whereas Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently stated that the United States expects Russia to honor its commitments to the Minsk agreements and work to de-escalate violence in Ukraine ; Whereas the Government of the Russian Federation, despite its commitments to these peace accords, continues to destabilize Ukraine through a variety of military and political maneuvers; Whereas OSCE observers still do not have full, unimpeded access to the Ukrainian-Russian border