IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 88 
Calling on the Russian Federation to stop the violence in Ukraine, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 3, 2017 
Mr. HARRIS (for himself, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. FITZPATRICK, and Mr. LEVIN) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Calling on the Russian Federation to stop the violence in 
Ukraine, and for other purposes. 
Whereas in 2014, the Russian Federation forcibly and ille-
gally occupied the Ukraine territory of Crimea and in-
vaded regions of eastern Ukraine, in gross violation of 
Ukraine’s sovereignty, deserving condemnation from the 
international community; 
Whereas the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances 
was signed on December 5, 1994, by the United States, 
the United Kingdom, and the Russian Federation pursu-
ant to Ukraine’s, Belarus’s and Kazakhstan’s accession 
to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weap-
ons, and included security assurances against threats or 
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use of force against the territorial integrity or political 
independence of such countries; 
Whereas, on July 17, 2014, the Russian military violated 
Ukraine’s territorial integrity by firing a Buk anti-air-
craft missile which downed Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, 
killing 298 passengers and crew members; 
Whereas the Russian Federation under President Vladimir 
Putin has engaged in relentless political, economic, and 
military aggression to subvert the independence and vio-
late the territorial integrity of Ukraine; 
Whereas combined Russian separatists have massed tens of 
thousands of troops on its borders with Ukraine and 
maintained thousands of troops in eastern Ukraine; 
Whereas Russia has committed millions of dollars into fund-
ing propaganda, disinformation, and military expendi-
tures to further its aspirations to reassemble its empire; 
Whereas Russian interference in the Ukraine contributed to 
the death of the ‘‘Heavenly Hundred’’ during the 
Maidan; 
Whereas Russia’s war in Ukraine has left more than 10,000 
dead since 2014, and has created a humanitarian crisis 
that has left 1,700,000 people internally displaced; 
Whereas the humanitarian crisis is worsening as more than 
5,000,000 people in eastern Ukraine lack sufficient ac-
cess to food, emergency shelter, and medical treatment; 
Whereas, on January 30, 2017, according to the United 
States Mission to the Organization for Security and Co-
operation in Europe (OSCE), the number of recent Rus-
sian ceasefire violations in the Donbas has spiked greatly, 
with explosions around the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka 
surpassing 2,300; 
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Whereas damage from this recent bombardment has stranded 
17,000 people, estimated to include 2,500 children, in 
Avdiivka without water, electricity, or heat in freezing 
conditions; 
Whereas up to 400,000 individuals in the surrounding area 
are also at risk of hypothermia with winter’s freezing 
temperatures; 
Whereas Russia’s covert war in Ukraine is a clear, gross, and 
uncorrected violation of relevant OSCE commitments; 
Whereas Russia’s action in Ukraine is just one aspect of its 
campaign to undermine the international order estab-
lished, and defended at great cost, by the United States 
and its allies in the aftermath of World War II and the 
Cold War; and 
Whereas deterring Russian aggression in Ukraine is an effec-
tive way for the United States to protect its vital inter-
ests in NATO and around the world: Now, therefore, be 
it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) calls on the Russian Federation to— 
(A) stop the violence in Ukraine; 
(B) honor the ceasefire agreed to under 
the Minsk Accord; 
(C) withdraw heavy weapons and troops 
from Ukraine’s sovereign territory; 
(D) stop financing the separatists in east-
ern Ukraine; 
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(E) allow repairs to critical infrastructure; 
and 
(F) fulfill all of its Minsk commitments; 
(2) expresses its sense that continued and fur-
ther unlawful Russian aggression in Ukraine may 
warrant considering the imposition of additional and 
more burdensome sanctions on the Russian Federa-
tion; 
(3) calls on the United States and other NATO 
countries to provide more defensive military support 
for Ukraine in fighting off Russian aggression; and 
(4) calls on the United States and the United 
Nations and its constituent agencies to provide more 
support for the 1,700,000 internally displaced people 
in Ukraine. 
Æ 
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