Mike McCaul

We are with you. United States is with you.

I look forward to celebrating your victory.

If we can do something to try and prevent this, to push back against, then we should.

We are the United States of America.

This put simply as many of us have said today is genocide.

And we passed in the last Congress a piece of legislation called Justice for Victims of War Crimes that Senator Grassley and Senator Durbin and Representative Spartz and I worked on which would allow us to prosecute people for war crimes…

I recently introduced legislation, House Res. 304 supporting the International Criminal Court's issuance of arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova.

I have introduced House Res. 81, calling on the President to support the creation of a special tribunal for the punishment of crimes of aggression against Ukraine.

We must hold the Russians--Russia war criminals, that is what they are, we must hold them accountable.

We are fighting for you. We are fighting for the free world.

The establishment of special tribunal for the crime of aggression is an extremely important element of our web of accountability

I think it is important this abduction of children, transporting, and indoctrinating falls squarely within the definition of genocide.

I commend you for your courage, your bravery, and your--just a strong character to seek justice against these monsters.

When the U.S. takes the lead on this issue, the world watches and it emboldens our own efforts in obtaining international justice.

To ensure that this never happens again and to provide justice for victims and survivors, all those who orchestrated and enabled the commission of core international crimes should be held accountable.

We cannot let history repeat itself.

Ukrainians did not ask for this unjust war. They are only asking for our support as they defend their homes and their sovereignty.

They cannot get away with it.

Have you looked in the mirror?

We cannot let your suffering be in vain.

No country can remain neutral in the face of such evil. Genocide must not be tolerated by the free world.

These are more than war crimes. These are more than crimes against humanity. What we are witnessing in Ukraine is genocide.

I introduced the Ukraine Invasion War Crimes Deterrence and Accountability Act which was signed into law.

To break the will of the Ukrainian people, Russia has employed the use of terror through barbaric war crimes from sexual violence including the rape of children and the elderly to mass executions and torture, all targeted at innocent…

The purpose of this hearing is to expose Russian war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine and to ensure that the world never forgets.