Whereas Russia initially, and without provocation, invaded the sovereign Nation of Ukraine in 2014 when it illegally captured portions of the Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk Oblasts; Whereas, on February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin and the Russian State initiated the violent invasion of Ukraine; Whereas Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, intended to achieve Vladimir Putin’s goal of conquering all of Ukraine, has proven to be a failure; Whereas, after 2 years of war in Ukraine, the Ukrainian people continue to demonstrate their commitment to defeating Russia and building a just and free democratic society; Whereas the war being perpetrated against Ukraine today takes place in the context of a long history of occupation and persecution against it by authoritarian powers including Russia, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany; Whereas over 10,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed and nearly 20,000 wounded by deliberate and indiscriminate Russian strikes against Ukraine; Whereas over 19,000 Ukrainian-born children have been illegally abducted by Russian forces and sympathizers and taken to Russian-occupied territory or Russia in an attempt to forcibly turn them into Russian citizens and erase their Ukrainian heritage; Whereas roughly 10,000,000 Ukrainians have been displaced from their homes as a result of Russia’s invasion, including 3,700,000 internally in Ukraine and 6,300,000 who have been forced to leave the country; Whereas 14,600,000 people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Ukraine, representing over one quarter of Ukraine’s prewar population; Whereas the total value of the physical destruction to Ukraine’s infrastructure, including schools, religious and cultural sites, hospitals, homes, businesses, government buildings and more is estimated to be over $400,000,000,000; Whereas over 100,000 instances of potential war crimes committed by Russian forces, including the intentional targeting of civilians, sexual violence, torture, mass murder, and other crimes against humanity, have been recorded