Whereas Ukraine has historically been a significant supplier of agricultural products for global markets, providing food for nearly 400 million people around the world, is the world’s fifth largest exporter of wheat, and provides over 11 percent of cereals to the world; Whereas, on February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation launched an unprovoked, full-scale invasion of the sovereign country of Ukraine; Whereas throughout the invasion, the Russian Federation has consistently mined Ukrainian farmland and bombed grain silos; Whereas, beginning on that date, the Russian Federation implemented an illegal naval blockade of Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea, disrupting Ukraine’s food exports, driving up global food prices and exacerbating global food insecurity; Whereas given many developing countries’ pre-war reliance on Ukrainian foodstuffs, the Russian Federation’s illegal blockade of Ukrainian ports disproportionately harmed millions of people who were already struggling with food insecurity before the war; Whereas, in May 2022, the European Union established and provided significant investment for Solidarity Lanes as road, rail, and inland waterway alternatives to facilitate the export of Ukrainian agricultural and nonagricultural products to global markets despite the Russian Federation’s illegal naval blockade of Ukraine; Whereas Ukrainian ports along the Danube River serve as an important alternative route for the export of Ukrainian goods, and are now a critical Black Sea shipping outlet for millions of tons of Ukrainian grain, but cannot accommodate all the grain previously transported from Black Sea ports; Whereas the Ukrainian Danube River ports have repeatedly been struck by Russian attacks following the Russian Federation’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative, destroying thousands of tons of grain and damaging necessary port infrastructure