Participating in the service for the Holodomor victims were Ukraine's Ambassador to the United States Oleh Shamshur, Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Yuriy Serheyev, Ukraine's Consul General to New York Serhiy Pohoreltsev, top clergy representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the US, the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, leaders of the Ukrainian community, US Senator Charles E. Schumer, officials of the diplomatic corps. US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand sent an individual greeting, the Foreign Ministry press-service reported.  US President Barack Obama traditionally made a statement on the Ukrainian Holodomor Remembrance Day. Obama said 'we pay respect to millions of victims who showed tremendous strength and courage.  The Ukrainian people overcame the horror of the great famine and have gone on to build a free and democratic country'. He also emphasized that 'the remembrance of Holodomor will help prevent such tragedy in the future'. In his speech, the Ukrainian ambassador pointed to a significantly raising attention to the problem of Holodomor and recognizing this horrible crime of Stalin and his aiders in the United States and other countries across the world over the past years. According to approximate calculations, Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine is thought to have killed 14 million Ukrainians.