IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 947 
Supporting an independent and democratic Ukraine. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 25, 2022 
Mr. WENSTRUP (for himself and Mr. CROW) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Supporting an independent and democratic Ukraine. 
Whereas, on August 24, 1991, the Ukrainian Parliament 
voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet 
Union and set December 1, 1991, for a national inde-
pendence referendum; 
Whereas, on December 1, 1991, more than 90 percent of 
Ukrainians voting in the referendum supported independ-
ence; 
Whereas, by December 25, 1991, the United States joined 
more than 20 countries, including Russia, in recognizing 
Ukrainian independence; 
Whereas, on December 5, 1994, Ukraine joined the United 
States, Russia, and the United Kingdom in signing the 
‘‘Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances’’, in 
which it agreed to remove all nuclear weapons from its 
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territory in exchange for assurance that Russia would re-
spect its sovereignty; 
Whereas, on February 8, 1994, Ukraine was the first mem-
ber state of the Commonwealth of Independent States to 
join the Partnership for Peace program of the North At-
lantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and has since been 
recognized as an Enhanced Opportunities Partner; 
Whereas, beginning February 20, 2014, the Russian Federa-
tion clandestinely invaded Ukraine, with Russian troops 
claiming to be Ukrainian separatists, and since then have 
militarily occupied the regions of Crimea and Donbas; 
Whereas, on July 17, 2014, Russian-backed separatists shot 
down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine 
with Russian missiles, killing all 298 people on board; 
Whereas, on September 5, 2014, Ukraine, the Russian Fed-
eration, and the Organization for Security and Co-oper-
ation in Europe (OSCE) signed the Minsk Protocol 
aimed at ending the conflict, which the Russian Federa-
tion continued to violate; 
Whereas, on February 12, 2015, a new package of measures 
to end the conflict in Ukraine was signed, known as 
Minsk II; 
Whereas, throughout 2021 and early 2022, Russia deployed 
a massive troop and weapons buildup on the border with 
Ukraine; 
Whereas, on December 7, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden, 
Jr., warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that the 
West would impose ‘‘strong economic and other meas-
ures’’ if Russia invades Ukraine; and 
Whereas, in the early morning of February 24, 2022, in 
Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a 
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large-scale invasions of sovereign Ukraine: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) stands unequivocally with the Ukrainian 
people and supports Ukraine’s sovereignty and right 
to self-governance; 
(2) condemns in the strongest terms Russian 
President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale, unprovoked 
war on Ukraine and violations of international laws 
and principles; 
(3) reaffirms our commitment to work with our 
allies of the free world and the Biden administration 
to provide lethal weapons for Ukraine’s defense, as 
well as, nonlethal, diplomatic, intelligence, and hu-
manitarian support to Ukraine; 
(4) calls on the Biden administration to imme-
diately enact additional crippling, punitive sanctions 
on Vladimir Putin and his Russian authoritarian re-
gime as well as appoint a United States Ambassador 
to Ukraine without further delay; 
(5) urges all members of international gov-
erning bodies to which the Russian Federation be-
longs to publicly condemn President Putin’s aggres-
sion and demonstrate in word and deed that Rus-
sia’s actions exclude them from any legitimate seat 
in the international community; and 
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(6) reaffirms unwavering United States support 
for a secure, democratic, and independent Ukraine 
free to choose its own leaders and future. 
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