On August 14, 2018 Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Lithuania Volodymyr Yatsenkivskyi participated in the ceremony of handover of command of the NATO Energy Security Center of Excellence. In the framework of event on the occasion of the handover of command from Colonel Gintaras Bagdonas to Colonel Romualdas Petkevičius, the Ambassador of Ukraine to Lithuania had separate conversations with the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defence of Lithuania regarding the perspectives of the joining of Ukraine to the NATO ENSEC COE and future cooperation in the energy sphere.