1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Stopping Aggressive Incursions on Liberty by Ordering Russian Sanctions Act or the SAILORS Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) On November 25, 2018, the Border Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation fired on and seized three Ukrainian naval ships sailing through the Kerch Strait. (2) The Russian Federal Security Service also seized 24 Ukrainian crew members of those ships, and continue to illegally detain them in Russia. (3) The Russian Government continues to refuse to release and return these 24 sailors and 3 ships. (4) The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea has ordered the release of the sailors and the ships seized by the Border Service. (5) The seizure of these ships and crewmembers is yet another escalation of Russia’s illegal and aggressive assault on Ukrainian territorial and naval sovereignty. 3. Sense of Congress Congress— (1) harshly condemns this attack on Ukraine, its ships, and its citizens; (2) demands the immediate release and return of these three Ukrainian ships and crewmembers; (3) welcomes the actions of the Secretary of the Treasury to implement sanctions on senior border officials of the Russian Federal Security Service involved in the Kerch Strait attach on March 15, 2019; (4) urges the President to continue to prioritize the return of these ships and crewmembers, including through the implementation of additional sanctions on Russian financial institutions, responsible parties in the Border Service and Federal Security Service, and parties associated with the Nord Stream 2 project, in order to increase the costs of such aggression