On September 25, 2020, Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Lithuania Volodymyr Yatsenkivskyi together with the Embassy staff participated in commemoration and consecration of reburial sites of the victims of the Nazi German Prisoner-of-War Camp and the Soviet Gulag Forced-Labour Camps in Macikai village (50 km from Klaipeda).

The event was attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius, representatives of the Office of the President of the Republic of Lithuania, Office of the Prime-Minister of the Republic of Lithuania, diplomatic corps accredited in Lithuania, local authorities, clergy, residents of surrounding villages.

The Nazi German Prisoner-of-War Camp and, later on, the Soviet Gulag Forced-Labour Camps operated in Maсikai from 1941 to 1955. In 2011, the numerous remains of camp victims were found in the village of Armalenai and in 2020 about 1,000 of them were reburied in Macikai village.