; and (B) the unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation; and Whereas, as of March 27, 2023, the official platform Children of War , which was created by the Ministry of Reintegration and the National Information Bureau on behalf of the Office of the President of Ukraine reported that— (1) at least 465 Ukrainian children have been killed and 942 Ukrainian children have been wounded since Russia’s renewed invasion of Ukraine began; and (2) there has been 16,207 verified cases of Ukrainian children being deported to Russia out of a possible 744,000 cases: Now, therefore, be it Whereas, on January 12, 1951, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (commonly known as the Genocide Convention ), of which the Russian Federation is a signatory, came into effect; Whereas, on February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation launched an illegal and unprovoked further invasion of Ukraine; Whereas, on March 22, 2022, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry announced that the Russian military had forcefully and illegally kidnapped 2,389 Ukrainian children from temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine; Whereas forcibly transferring children of one group to another group can constitute a violation of Article II(e) of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted and opened for signature in 1948 and entered into force in 1951 (commonly known as the Genocide Convention ); Whereas the unlawful deportation or transfer of protected people constitutes a breach of Article 147 of the Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, done at Geneva August 12, 1949 (commonly referred to as the Fourth Geneva Convention ); Whereas, Maria Lvova-Belova, Children’s Rights Commissioner for the President of Russia, admitted to kidnapping Ukrainian children and facilitating forced adoptions to Russian families