; Whereas the Ukrainian Danube River ports have repeatedly been struck by Russian attacks following the Russian Federation’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative, destroying thousands of tons of grain and damaging necessary port infrastructure; Whereas, on July 27, 2022, Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Turkey, and the United Nations launched the Black Sea Grain Initiative to ensure the safe passage of commercial vessels carrying grain, foodstuffs, and fertilizers, including ammonia, in and out of three Ukrainian ports; Odesa, Chornomorsk, and Yuzhny (Pivdennyi) ; Whereas under this initiative, teams of Ukrainian, Russian, Turkish, and United Nations officials inspected cargo ships inbound to or outbound from Ukrainian ports and traveling along a specified humanitarian corridor; Whereas until the Russian Federation suspended its participation, the Black Sea Grain Initiative facilitated the export of nearly 33 million metric tons of grain; Whereas, during the period in which the Black Sea Grain Initiative was active, the Russian Federation reportedly delayed inspections of eligible vessels, reducing the amount of agricultural products that were exported from Ukraine to millions of people who relied on them; Whereas, on July 17, 2023, the Russian Federation suspended its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative and soon thereafter announced that it would consider civilian vessels traveling in the Black Sea to be valid military targets; Whereas despite the Kremlin’s claims to the contrary in justifying its decision to suspend the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Russia is making significant profits from its grain exports; Whereas the Russian Federation defended its suspension of participation in the initiative by falsely claiming that Western sanctions enacted against it in response to its invasion of Ukraine prohibited exports of Russian agricultural products to the world, despite longstanding humanitarian carve-outs in European Union and United States sanctions regimes