Whereas in 2014, the Russian Federation forcibly and illegally occupied the Ukraine territory of Crimea and invaded regions of eastern Ukraine, in gross violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty, deserving condemnation from the international community; Whereas the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances was signed on December 5, 1994, by the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Russian Federation pursuant to Ukraine’s, Belarus’s and Kazakhstan’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and included security assurances against threats or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of such countries; Whereas, on July 17, 2014, the Russian military violated Ukraine’s territorial integrity by firing a Buk anti-aircraft missile which downed Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, killing 298 passengers and crew members; Whereas the Russian Federation under President Vladimir Putin has engaged in relentless political, economic, and military aggression to subvert the independence and violate the territorial integrity of Ukraine; Whereas combined Russian-separatists have massed tens of thousands of troops on its borders with Ukraine and maintained thousands of troops in eastern Ukraine; Whereas Russia has committed millions of dollars into funding propaganda, disinformation, and military expenditures to further its aspirations to reassemble its empire; Whereas Russian interference in the Ukraine contributed to the death of the Heavenly Hundred during the Maidan; Whereas Russia’s war in Ukraine has left more than 10,000 dead since 2014, and has created a humanitarian crisis that has left 1,700,000 people internally displaced; Whereas the humanitarian crisis is worsening as more than 5,000,000 people in eastern Ukraine lack sufficient access to food, emergency shelter, and medical treatment