IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1022 
Condemning the ongoing illegal occupation of Crimea by the Russian 
Federation. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 24, 2018 
Mr. JOYCE of Ohio submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on 
the Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, and 
Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning the ongoing illegal occupation of Crimea by 
the Russian Federation. 
Whereas, in February 2014, unidentified Russian armed 
forces entered Ukrainian territory and took control of key 
military and government infrastructure in the Crimean 
peninsula of Ukraine; 
Whereas, in March 2014, the Parliament of the Russian Fed-
eration gave rubber-stamp approval to President Vladimir 
Putin’s request to use military force against Ukrainian 
territory ostensibly because of the ‘‘threat of violence 
from ultranationalists’’; 
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Whereas, on March 27, 2014, the United Nations General 
Assembly adopted Resolution 68/262 calling on states 
and international organizations not to recognize any 
change in Crimea’s status and affirmed the commitment 
of the United Nations to recognize Crimea as part of 
Ukraine; 
Whereas the Russian Federation’s illegal invasion and annex-
ation of Crimea has been widely seen as an effort to stifle 
the spread of prodemocracy developments across Ukraine 
in 2014 in the wake of the Euromaidan protests; 
Whereas the Russian Federation is a signatory to the 1994 
Budapest Memorandum and thus committed to respect 
the independence, sovereignty, and borders of Ukraine 
and to refrain from threats, coercive economic actions, or 
the use of force against Ukraine’s territorial integrity 
and political independence; 
Whereas the Russian Federation committed in the 1975 
Final Act of the Conference for Security and Cooperation 
in Europe (Helsinki Final Act) to respect the sovereign 
equality and territorial integrity of other participating 
states; 
Whereas the Russian Federation’s obligations under the 
Charter of the United Nations prohibit the threat or use 
of force against the territorial integrity and political inde-
pendence of other states; 
Whereas the Russian Federation’s ongoing illegal occupation 
of Crimea in Ukraine has been widely condemned by the 
international community as illegal acts; 
Whereas the United States and the European Union have im-
posed sanctions on individuals and entities who have en-
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abled the illegal invasion, annexation, and occupation of 
Crimea; 
Whereas the Department of State has stated in its Country 
Reports on Human Rights Practices that security serv-
ices and local authorities in Crimea installed by the Gov-
ernment of the Russian Federation have ‘‘worked to con-
solidate control over Crimea and continued to restrict 
human rights by imposing repressive Federal laws of the 
Russian Federation on the Ukrainian territory of Cri-
mea’’ and that ‘‘the most significant human rights prob-
lems in Crimea [were] related directly to the Russian oc-
cupation’’; 
Whereas the Department of State has described ‘‘an exten-
sive campaign of intimidation to suppress dissent and op-
position to the occupation’’ that has been carried out by 
Russian security services inside Crimea, including the use 
of torture and physical abuse, kidnapping, disappear-
ances, and deportations, and reporting from independent 
human rights groups inside and outside Crimea has docu-
mented such alleged human rights violations by Russian 
security services and paramilitary groups; 
Whereas the campaign of intimidation in Crimea has resulted 
in the prosecution and imprisonment of individuals who 
oppose or criticize the occupation or support Ukrainian 
sovereignty as well as the transfer of some individuals 
from Crimea to Russian Federation territory for prosecu-
tion and imprisonment; 
Whereas the Department of State has noted that illegal occu-
pying authorities in Crimea have also restricted the fun-
damental human rights of particular groups, including 
ethnic Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars, ‘‘particularly re-
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