On August 29, 2019, Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Lithuania Volodymyr Yatsenkivskyi held a warm meeting with the delegation of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine headed by the First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Colonel General Ihor Kolesnyk, which is visiting Vilnius for consultations with the Defense Staff of the Armed Forces of Lithuania.

During the meeting, the current state of cooperation between the defense agencies of Ukraine and Lithuania was discussed, as well as the progress of the reforming the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
At the beginning of the meeting, the Ambassador of Ukraine, the Embassy staff and members of the delegation of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine commemorated the memory of the defenders of Ukraine who died in the fight for independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, with a moment of silence.