Whereas the Russian Federation has carried out an illegal, premeditated, unprovoked, and brutal war against Ukraine; Whereas the Russian Federation in its war against Ukraine has perpetrated heinous atrocities against unarmed civilians, including pillage, torture, rape, summary executions, the destruction of entire cities, and other crimes, including crimes targeting women and children; Whereas the Russian Federation in its war against Ukraine has repeatedly threatened to use nuclear weapons; Whereas the Russian Federation in its war against Ukraine has forcibly occupied and taken deliberate actions that threaten to destroy civilian nuclear power stations, facilities the destruction of which would place millions of people in Ukraine and in other nations at risk; Whereas the Russian Federation has carried out illegal so-called referendums in Ukraine and adopted legislation purporting to annex regions, notwithstanding that the overwhelming majority of nations unambiguously recognize, and the Russian Federation itself had unambiguously recognized, that those regions are sovereign territory of Ukraine; Whereas the Russian Federation has indicated its intention to destroy Ukraine as a nation and has used rhetoric calling for further illegal purported annexations and violence against other nations; Whereas the Russian Federation, under the Memorandum on Security Assurances in Connection with Ukraine’s Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons signed at Budapest on December 7, 1994 ( Budapest Memorandum ), reaffirmed in accordance with the principles of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe its commitments to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine and to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine