1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Responding to the Energy Security Crisis in Ukraine and Europe (RESCUE) Act of 2023 . 2. Sense of Congress on energy resource implications of the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine It is the sense of Congress that the United States should support allies and partners’ efforts to reduce dependence on imported Russian energy resources and enhance energy security in a manner that reinforces the sovereignty of these democratic countries by diversifying and securing their energy supplies and mobilizing domestic energy resource production by— (1) working to ban all imports of Russian energy resources to the United States; (2) increasing the access of European partners and allies to immediate energy resources necessitated by the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting global energy crisis; (3) supporting Europe’s development and deployment of emerging and advanced energy technologies to ensure countries’ energy security and diversification away from Russian-controlled energy resources; (4) recognizing that the severity and cost of Russia’s damage to Ukraine’s energy infrastructure is dynamic and continues to worsen, as explained in the World Bank’s second Ukraine Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment for February 2022-February 2023, which estimates that— (A) current damage and losses to Ukraine’s energy sector is estimated to be $27,000,000,000, which is more than double the level in the fall of 2022 ($12,000,000,000); (B) damage to power, gas, and heating infrastructure and coal mining, as of February 24, 2023, was above $10,000,000,000 as compared to an estimated $2,000,000,000 on June 1, 2022; (C) the largest share of damage is in the electricity production and transmission sector and is estimated to be close to $6,500,000,000 in damage; and (D) Ukraine’s gas sector has sustained an estimated $1,200,000,000 in damage, which includes damage to gas distribution infrastructure, as well as damage reported by the gas transmission system operator