; Whereas, in late February 2022, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization began its ongoing effort to help coordinate Ukraine’s requests for assistance and to support Allies in the delivery of humanitarian aid; Whereas, on March 1, 2022, a Russian airstrike hit Kyiv’s main television tower, damaging broadcasting infrastructure, killing at least 5 people, and injuring others; Whereas, on March 1, 2022, a Russian airstrike targeted Freedom Square in Kharkiv, as cars were stopped at a traffic light on their morning commute; Whereas Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy characterized Russia’s airstrike on Freedom Square on March 1, 2022, as a war crime ; Whereas, on March 1, 2022, at the United Nations Human Rights Council, Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned Russia for killing civilians, striking schools, hospitals and residential buildings in Ukraine; Whereas, on March 1, 2022, Andriy Yermak, head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, announced that a Russian missile hit the location of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial complex in Kyiv, a place where thousands of Jewish people were killed between 1941 and 1943; Whereas, on March 1, 2022, a Russian missile hit Freedom Square in the center of Kharkiv, Ukraine, causing severe damage to an opera house, concert hall, and government offices; Whereas, on March 1, 2022, President Zelenskyy expressed to the European Parliament, we are fighting for our rights, for our freedoms, for life, for our life, and now we are fighting for survival ; Whereas, on March 1, 2022, a global spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Shabia Mantoo, announced that the UNHCR would begin coordinating a refugee response plan with other United Nations agencies and nongovernmental organization partners, in support of national authorities helping people fleeing Ukraine, a response plan which includes almost 250 partner organizations and which has assisted millions of Ukrainians over course of the past year