On November 26, 2020, a public action regarding the 87th anniversary of the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine took place near the Monument to Soviet Occupation Victims, located in the center of the Lithuanian capital.
The organizers of the commemorative event that traditionally takes place in late November in Vilnius near the Monument, which on this day becomes a symbol of common memory of two nations about the victims of the Soviet totalitarian regime, were the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Lithuania, Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania, Lithuanian Museum of the Occupation and Freedom Fights, Ukrainian community in Vilnius, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity in Vilnius.
The event was attended by the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Lithuania Volodymyr Yatsenkivskyi, Director of the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania, Chairman of the Union of Lithuanian Tatars Adas Jakubauskas, Director of the Lithuanian Museum of the Occupation and Freedom Fights, Eugenijus Peikštenis, the Head of the Ukrainian community in Vilnius and her deputy Lidia Kholčeva, the priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity in Vilnius, Father Tadei Godovanets (the Order of St. Basil the Great), representatives of the Embassy of Ukraine in Lithuania. Participants commemorated millions of innocent victims of the Holodomor, the victims of the Soviet totalitarian regime by a moment of silence, laid flowers and wheat spikelets tied with blue and yellow ribbons, lit symbolic candles near the Monument to Soviet Occupation Victims.
This year's event took place with a limited number of participants with appropriate social distancing between them and in compliance with the quarantine requirements introduced in the Republic of Lithuania.