The Ukrainian national MPs from a number of factions have joined the legislative initiative of the national MP Vitaly  Barvinenko on the Recognition of the Genocide of Armenian people.

According to Genocide.org.ua, the project has been joined by Ukrainian national MPs Alexander Presman (Revival Party), David Makaryan (Petro Poroshenko Bloc), as well as Nikolay Knyazhitsky , Irina Yefremova, Igor Brichenko, Anatoliy Diriv, Gennadiy Krivosheya, Alexander Kirsh, Igor Kotvitsky, Vadim Pidbereznyak and Valery Lunchenko from People’s Party faction.

On 6 June 2013, Ukriane’s Verkhovna Rada introduced a draft decision on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide committed in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.  The initiators of No 2254 bill are the Ukrainian national MPs Vilen Shatvoryan and Arsen Avakov.