Whereas, on February 24, 2022, Russia unleashed a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in contravention of international law and the Charter of the United Nations; Whereas the Russian Armed Forces committed mass atrocities in Bucha, Irpin, Kherson, Izyum, Mariupol, Dnipro, and Ukrainian towns occupied by the Russian Federation, including rape, summary execution, and unlawful violence and threats against civilians; Whereas the Russian Armed Forces deliberately choose to target civilian infrastructure to terrorize Ukrainian citizens; Whereas, on September 21, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated to the United Nations General Assembly that an aggression tribunal must be established as a signal to all would-be aggressors, that they must value peace or be brought to responsibility by the world ; Whereas, on January 19, 2023, the European Parliament, by a vote of 472 to 19, called for the establishment of a special international criminal tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine in order to send a very clear signal to both Russian society and the international community that Putin and the Russian political and military leadership can be convicted for the crime of aggression in Ukraine ; Whereas, on March 27, 2023, the United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice, Dr. Beth Van Schaack, stated, There is no question that Russia's aggression against Ukraine is a manifest violation of the UN Charter. ; Whereas Article 2(4) of the Charter of the United Nations states, All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.