; Whereas our European allies and partners have committed more economic and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine than the United States; Whereas, as a share of GDP, assistance reportedly provided to Ukraine by Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Denmark, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Sweden, and Greece is higher than that provided by any other country including the United States, and many other European countries have provided an amount of assistance comparable to the United States as a share of their GDP; Whereas, as a share of a country’s defense budget, 12 countries have provided more military aid to Ukraine than the United States; Whereas the United Kingdom has provided the second-most military assistance to Ukraine after the United States and was the first country to pledge Western main battle tanks, provide significantly longer range missiles, and train Ukrainian pilots on advanced Western fighter jets; Whereas Poland has been a regional leader in supporting the people of Ukraine, including by processing the border crossing of over 9,900,000 refugees from Ukraine and facilitating their onward movement to other European countries, caring for over 1,500,000 Ukrainian refugees currently residing in Poland, providing training for Ukrainian soldiers in Poland on various weapons systems, including Leopard 2 tanks, and being the third-largest provider of military assistance to Ukraine; Whereas, as a result of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Sweden and Finland have applied for NATO membership which would greatly bolster the security and strength of the alliance; Whereas European countries have generously accepted and cared for over 7,800,000 Ukrainian refugees who have fled from Russia’s war, including more than 4,000,000 Ukrainians who have registered for temporary protection in the European Union (EU), at an estimated cost of $18,000,000,000 in EU funding and billions more in funds from individual EU member states