Whereas, on February 24, 2022, the Government of the Russian Federation launched an unprovoked, full-scale, military invasion against Ukraine in direct violation of international law; Whereas this full-scale assault is a continuation of the Government of the Russian Federation’s illegal invasion and occupation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and part of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions in 2014; Whereas contrary to the expectations of the Russian Federation, Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv did not fall in a matter of days, and Ukraine has prevented Russia from achieving its objectives of conquering Ukraine and installing a puppet government; Whereas Russia’s invading forces have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other atrocity crimes in Ukraine, including rape, torture, murder, the forcible deportation of children, and the targeting of civilian critical infrastructure; Whereas the Russian Federation has deployed troops to Belarus, using the country as a staging ground for attacks into Ukraine and making the Lukashenka regime complicit in Russia’s war against Ukraine; Whereas Russia’s full-scale invasion has created immense humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and, as a result, over 8,000 civilians have died, roughly 5,400,000 people have been internally displaced, and 17,600,000 people are in need of humanitarian aid; Whereas Russia’s war has also triggered an immense human and economic toll felt well beyond Ukraine’s border, including a massive influx of over 8,100,000 Ukrainian refugees in Europe and an exacerbation of global food insecurity; Whereas, since February 2022, Congress has appropriated over $113,000,000,000 in humanitarian, economic, and military assistance for Ukraine and other countries impacted by the conflict, and related funding, which totals just 0.4 percent of the United States gross domestic product (GDP); Whereas our European allies and partners have committed more economic and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine than the United States