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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 2940 

To require a comprehensive report that contains a strategy for United States 

involvement in Ukraine. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 27 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 22), 2023 

Mr. LEE (for himself, Mr. BRAUN, Mr. VANCE, and Mr. MARSHALL) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

A BILL 

To require a comprehensive report that contains a strategy 

for United States involvement in Ukraine. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Define the Mission 

5 Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. REPORT. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the 

8 date of the enactment of this Act, the President, in coordi9 nation with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary 

10 of State, shall develop and submit to Congress a comVerDate Sep 11 2014 05:45 Sep 29, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S2940.IS S2940

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1 prehensive report that contains a strategy for United 

2 States involvement in Ukraine. 

3 (b) ELEMENTS.—The report required by subsection 

4 (a) shall— 

5 (1) define the United States national interests 

6 at stake with respect to the conflict between the 

7 Russian Federation and Ukraine; 

8 (2) identify specific objectives the President be9 lieves must be achieved in Ukraine in order to pro10 tect the United States national interests defined in 

11 paragraph (1), and for each objective— 

12 (A) an estimate of the amount of time re13 quired to achieve the objective, with an expla14 nation; 

15 (B) benchmarks to be used by the Presi16 dent to determine whether an objective has been 

17 met, is in the progress of being met, or cannot 

18 be met in the time estimated to be required in 

19 subparagraph (A); and 

20 (C) estimates of the amount of resources, 

21 including United States personnel, materiel, 

22 and funding, required to achieve the objective; 

23 (3) list the expected contribution for security 

24 assistance made by European member countries of 


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1 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization within the 

2 next fiscal year; and 

3 (4) provide an assessment of the impact of the 

4 Russian Federation’s dominance of the natural gas 

5 market in Europe on the ability to resolve the ongo6 ing conflict with Ukraine. 

7 (c) REQUIREMENTS FOR STRATEGY.—The strategy 

8 included in the report required under subsection (a)— 

9 (1) shall be designed to achieve a cease-fire in 

10 which the Russian Federation and Ukraine agree to 

11 abide by the terms and conditions of such cease-fire; 

12 and 

13 (2) may not be contingent on United States in14 volvement of funding of Ukrainian reconstruction. 

15 (d) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a)— 

16 (1) shall be submitted in an unclassified form; 

17 and 

18 (2) shall include a classified annex if necessary 

19 to provide the most holistic picture of information to 

20 Congress as required under this section. 

21 (e) CONGRESS DEFINED.—In this section, the term 

22 ‘‘Congress’’ means— 

23 (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the 

24 Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; 


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1 (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the 

2 Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep3 resentatives; and 

4 (3) any Member of Congress upon request. 

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