; Whereas Vladimir Putin has violated every international norm and obligation freely undertaken by the Russian Federation with his unprovoked and brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine; Whereas Vladimir Putin has openly denied the existence of the Ukrainian people and authorized genocidal action to erase Ukrainian identity; Whereas Vladimir Putin has made clear his intention to push militarily beyond Ukraine if given the opportunity into NATO member countries and beyond in his expressed effort to reconstruct a Russian imperial entity; Whereas Vladimir Putin incarcerated Alexei Navalny, one of his strongest remaining opposition figures, who exposed the terrible extent of corruption present in his lawless regime and was nearly killed by a nerve agent attack carried out by Russian security services in 2020; and Whereas Alexei Navalny was imprisoned in inhumane conditions, often times in solitary confinement with very little food and little to no exercise in the most oppressive prison in Siberia, IK–3 penal colony, where he died under unknown but highly suspicious circumstances on February 16, 2024: Now, therefore, be it