1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ukraine Cybersecurity Cooperation Act of 2017 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The United States established diplomatic relations with Ukraine in 1992, following its independence from the Soviet Union. (2) The United States attaches great importance to the success of Ukraine’s transition to a modern democratic country with a flourishing market economy. (3) In 2014, days before the Presidential election in Ukraine, there took place a failed attempt to destroy the election system software through a cyber attack. (4) In December 2015, Ukrainian power companies experienced unscheduled power outages impacting a large number of customers in Ukraine from a cyber attack. (5) In response to cyber attacks in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko emphasized the need for a National Cyber Security System declaring that cyberspace has turned into another battlefield 101 for State independence. (6) As a result of the December 2015 cyberattack, the United States sent interagency teams that included representatives from the Department of Energy, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation to Ukraine to look into the safety of their infrastructure and to help with investigations. The visit was followed up by another interagency delegation to Ukraine in March 2016, and a May 2016 United States-Ukrainian tabletop exercise on mitigating attacks against Ukraine’s infrastructure. (7) As noted by former Deputy Secretary of Commerce, Bruce Andrews, Cybersecurity is a perfect example of a sector in which we can work together to increase national and economic security, create jobs, and provide mutual prosperity for both our economies. Together I am confident that we can provide leadership to enhance cybersecurity capabilities across Central and Southeast Europe. . 3. Statement of policy It is the policy of the United States to— (1) reaffirm the commitment of the United States to the United States-Ukraine Charter on Strategic