; (2) the UN Human Rights Council, which has called upon the Russian Federation to immediately end its human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law committed in the course of its aggression against Ukraine; (3) the International Court of Justice, which has ordered that the Russian Federation shall immediately suspend all military operations against Ukraine, including the military operations that the Russian Federation commenced on February 24, 2022, and refrain from actions violating the human rights of the Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian communities in the Crimean region of Ukraine, which region the Russian Federation has illegally occupied by force since 2014 and illegally purports to have annexed; (4) the President of the UN Security Council, who has condemned the continuous violations of the earlier cease-fire regime under the Minsk Agreements and has called on the Russian Federation to facilitate the work of the Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Ukraine; and (5) the UN Secretary-General, who has called on the Russian Federation to stop its military offensive against Ukraine and who has declared that Russia’s illegal purported annexation of territory in Ukraine flouts the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations ; Whereas the Russian Federation’s repeated threats to use nuclear weapons and rhetoric about raising its nuclear alert levels are inconsistent with and in flagrant disregard of the Joint Statement on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races that the Russian Federation, along with the other four permanent members of the UN Security Council, adopted in 2022