; Whereas, since 2014, the United States Government has imposed sanctions against Russia for its illegal annexation of Crimea, invasion of eastern Ukraine, and other malign activities in Ukraine; Whereas Congress passed the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act of 2017 with overwhelming bipartisan support, which codified and strengthened these sanctions; Whereas Congress has provided close to $4 billion in critical security and development assistance to Ukraine to help that nation deter Russian aggression, strengthen democratic institutions, and to continue its euro-Atlantic trajectory; Whereas United States servicemembers in cooperation with NATO forces provide critical training to Ukrainian ground force units at the Yavoriv Combat Training Center; Whereas United States cooperation with Ukraine has yielded valuable lessons into the evolution of Russia’s hybrid warfare tactics thereby enhancing United States readiness; Whereas Ukraine held Presidential and parliamentary elections in 2019, which the international community lauded as free and fair; Whereas, since the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, Ukraine’s civil society has played a critical role in advancing democratic and rule of law reforms, sometimes paying with their lives, as was the case of Kateryna Handziuk, who died on November 4, 2018, of injuries sustained during a July 2018 acid attack; Whereas, in April 2019, Ukraine launched a special anticorruption court to counter Ukraine’s longstanding problems of corruption that is to be free from political influence; Whereas Ukraine’s central bank rightfully nationalized PrivatBank due to its previous owners’ rampant corruption and theft from the Ukrainian people; Whereas PrivatBank must remain independent from any oligarch influence, must not be returned to its previous ownership, and is a test case for Ukraine’s commitment to anticorruption reform efforts