Summary

Recognizes and records findings that Russia’s 2022–2025 aggression against Ukraine has targeted agriculture, energy, and export infrastructure and has contributed to global food insecurity. Recalls the 1932–1933 Ukrainian famine (Holodomor), cites historical details and prior U.S. commemorative actions, and highlights Ukrainian and diaspora efforts to remember and raise awareness.

• The text states that Russia’s 2022–2025 aggression has targeted Ukraine’s agriculture, energy grid, and export infrastructure.
• It characterizes Russia’s actions and the withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative as contributing to a weaponization of food and worsening global food insecurity.
• The preamble cites over 32 million metric tons of Ukrainian grain exported under the Black Sea Grain Initiative through July 2022–2023.
• It recalls the 1932–1933 Holodomor, describing forced collectivization, sealed borders, confiscation of grain, and massive rural population losses.
• Notes Ukraine’s 2006 law recognizing the Holodomor as genocide and references scholars and Raphael Lemkin’s use of genocide terminology.
• References U.S. commemorative steps including a 1985 commission on the Ukrainian famine and a Holodomor Memorial established in 2006.
• Highlights ongoing Ukrainian and diaspora commemorations and efforts to raise international awareness of the famine and current food-security impacts.
• Frames contemporary Russian policy as having parallels with Soviet-era totalitarian practices in its effects on civilians and food systems.