On 25 March 2025, Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Rwanda Viacheslav Yatsiuk and his spouse Olena visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial to pay tribute to the victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda. A wreath of remembrance with ribbons in the colours of the Ukrainian national flag was laid at the burial site of approximately 250,000 Rwandans who perished during the genocide. In total, from April to July 1994, between 800,000 and 1 million people were brutally killed in Rwanda.

 In the guestbook entry at the Memorial, the Ambassador emphasized that the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda became one of the most horrific failures of modern civilization. "The international community was silent and did nothing in 1994 when hundreds of thousands of innocent people were killed, raped and mutilated in Rwanda. The same happened in 1932-1933 in Ukraine when millions of Ukrainians were killed by starvation as a result of the Holodomor – the deliberate policies enacted by the Soviet totalitarian regime. And the world did nothing then either to stop the genocide." "We cannot allow such unforgivable failures of our humanity to be repeated. The most heinous crimes of genocide must never happen again on our planet," the Ukrainian diplomat emphasized in his entry.

During a meeting with the leadership of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Rwanda expressed readiness to facilitate closer cooperation between the Memorial and the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide, including the exchange of experience in preserving the memory and spreading the truth about the genocidal crimes, of which the Ukrainian and Rwandan peoples were victims in their time.