; Whereas continued Russian aggression against Ukraine in contravention of the Budapest Memorandum threatens current and future efforts to combat the proliferation of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction; Whereas, since 2014, Russia has annexed and occupied the Ukrainian territory of Crimea in contravention of international law; Whereas Russia is holding nearly 100 Ukrainian political prisoners in Russian territory and the territory it currently occupies in Crimea in contravention of international law; Whereas the Russian Federal Security Service coast guard illegally fired upon and captured three Ukrainian Navy vessels, including 24 Ukrainian crew members, that were exercising Ukraine’s right to navigation through the Kerch Strait on the way to the port of Mariupol; Whereas the modern country of Georgia was founded in 1991 and recognized by the United States in 1992; Whereas Georgia held competitive, well-administered, and free parliamentary elections in 2016 and is expected to hold new parliamentary elections by 2020; Whereas the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, one-fifth of Georgia’s sovereign territory, remain under Russian occupation since the aftermath of Russia’s August 2008 war with Georgia; Whereas the modern Republic of Moldova was founded in 1991 and recognized by the United States the same year; Whereas Moldova held competitive and generally well-administered parliamentary elections in 2014 and held new parliamentary elections on February 24, 2019; Whereas military forces and equipment from Russia have remained in the separatist region of Transnistria since Moldova declared independence in 1991; Whereas the European Court of Human Rights, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the Government of Moldova have called upon Russia to remove its troops from Moldovan territory