(1) Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened 
and violated the sovereignty and territorial integrity 
of Russia’s neighbors, including Belarus, Georgia, 
Moldova, and Ukraine to quash democratic move-
ments in those countries and strengthen his own 
power. 
(2) In 2014, Russia invaded and has since oc-
cupied regions of Ukraine, including areas of the 
Donetsk and Luhansk regions, after the Ukrainian 
people ousted, a corrupt and repressive President 
Viktor Yanukovych and expressed their clear desire 
to deepen their integration with the European 
Union. 
(3) On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federa-
tion, led by Vladimir Putin, drastically escalated his 
invasion in Ukraine, resulting in a full-scale invasion 
by the Russian Armed Forces and causing massive 
displacement in the country and region that threat-
ens to trigger a wider humanitarian crisis in Europe. 
(4) Vladimir Putin’s decision to escalate his in-
vasion of Ukraine is being met with stiff Ukrainian 
resistance and transatlantic and international resolve 
to support Ukraine and hold Russia accountable. 
(5) The United States and its allies and part-
ners around the globe provided every opportunity for 
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a diplomatic resolution to this crisis to avoid unnec-
essary death and suffering. 
(6) Putin’s aggression in Ukraine threatens 
universal democratic ideals and transatlantic secu-
rity. 
(7) According to Human Rights Watch and 
international monitors, the Russian Armed Forces 
have committed grave violations of international hu-
manitarian and human rights law, including viola-
tions against children’s rights, the use of explosive 
weapons including cluster munitions in populated 
areas, and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, 
homes, and non-military infrastructure. 
(8) Adherence to the Geneva Conventions and 
their Additional Protocols is essential to ensure hu-
manitarian access and life-saving assistance can be 
maintained for civilian populations despite conflict. 
(9) As part of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine 
by the Russian Armed Forces, Vladimir Putin and 
Belarusian Alyaksandar Lukashenka have further 
cracked down domestically, including mass arrests, 
on any dissent on Russians and Belarusians who 
voice opposition to this war. 
(10) The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian 
Armed Forces threatens Belarusian and Russian 
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dissidents living in Ukraine as well as ethnic and 
LGBTQI+ minorities and other vulnerable groups. 
(11) Ukrainians have displayed immense brav-
ery, courage, and resolve in standing up to protect 
democratic values and their sovereignty and resist il-
legal and unprovoked aggression from the Russian 
Armed Forces led by Putin. 
(12) The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the 
Russian Armed Forces threatens to create a dire hu-
manitarian crisis in Europe with secondary and ter-
tiary impacts across the globe. 
(13) According to a rapid humanitarian needs 
assessment by the United Nations Office for Coordi-
nation of Humanitarian Affairs, in the next three 
months the conflict is projected to drive humani-
tarian needs for nearly 12 million people living in 
Ukraine at the time of the escalation, including a 
projected 6.7 million internally displaced persons 
within Ukraine, and as many as 4 million people in 
Ukraine projected to flee to neighboring countries 
for safety. 
(14) Prior to full-scale invasion of Ukraine by 
the Russian Armed Forces, around 1.4 million peo-
ple had been internally displaced inside Ukraine 
since Russia’s invasion in 2014, and potentially mil-
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