Whereas, on March 2, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution condemning the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine, demanded the Russian Federation’s immediate withdrawal from Ukraine, and reaffirmed Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity; Whereas the Russian Federation has carried out a brutal war against Ukraine, threatening to destroy Ukraine as a sovereign nation state, and has attempted to annex entire regions of Ukraine’s sovereign territory to its own benefit; Whereas the Russian Federation has committed atrocities against Ukrainian civilians, has occupied and threatened to destroy civilian-use nuclear power stations, placing millions of people both inside and outside Ukraine at risk, and has purposefully caused the destruction of entire Ukrainian cities; Whereas the Russian Federation has repeatedly threatened to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine in disregard of the Joint Statement on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races that the Russian Federation adopted in 2022, in concurrence with the 4 other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council; Whereas the Russian Federation is in violation of its commitments under the Memorandum on Security Assurances in Connection with Ukraine’s Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, signed in Budapest on December 7, 1994, whereby Ukraine agreed to relinquish its nuclear weapons in exchange for the assurances of the Russian Federation that it would respect the independence, sovereignty, and existing borders of Ukraine, and would refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity and independence of Ukraine