Bill > JRS042

This joint resolution condemns the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine, which began in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea and escalated with a full-scale invasion in February 2022, causing widespread destruction and loss of life. The resolution specifically highlights the devastating impact of these actions on Ukrainian children, detailing instances of attacks on civilian infrastructure like maternity hospitals, the forced transfer and abduction of thousands of children, and their placement in reeducation camps or forced adoption into Russian families, which is considered a potential war crime. It also notes the granting of Russian citizenship to newborns and orphans in occupied Ukrainian territories and the systematic efforts to alter children's cultural and linguistic heritage. The resolution urges Russia to immediately stop its attacks, withdraw its forces from Ukraine, and return all forcibly removed children, and directs the Secretary of State to send copies of this resolution to the Russian and Ukrainian ambassadors to the United States.