; Whereas the Russian Federation has abused the power of the veto that it holds in the UN Security Council under Article 23, paragraph 1, of the UN Charter, including by exercising the veto in order to prevent the Security Council from taking necessary actions and reaching appropriate determinations in regard to the Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine; Whereas the Russian Federation further has abused the procedures of the Security Council, including— (1) by attempting to prevent senior representatives of Ukraine from addressing the Security Council; (2) by exploiting the Security Council as a venue in which to make patently false accusations, including false accusations that Ukraine has committed genocide against Russians, that the President of Ukraine is a Nazi, and that Ukraine is preparing a nuclear attack; (3) by advancing a draft resolution that would attempt to portray Ukraine as responsible for the humanitarian disaster resulting from the Russian Federation’s aggression, a draft resolution having no purpose except to obstruct the orderly conduct of Security Council proceedings and distract attention from the Russian Federation’s aggression; (4) by lodging repeated complaints in the Security Council under Article VI of the Biological Weapons Convention ( BWC ) falsely accusing Ukraine of hosting biological weapons programs involving birds, bats, and mosquitoes and providing no evidence to support its complaints, while ignoring statements by the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs that that Office is unaware of any biological weapons programs in Ukraine, ignoring that consultations with 89 countries convened under the BWC did not find any BWC violations in Ukraine, and ignoring the damage that the Russian Federation’s baseless allegations have done to multilateral cooperation under the BWC