The competition will be held in Yerevan in December.
Ukraine will take part in the 20th Children's Song Contest the Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place on December 11 in Yerevan. As Suspilne reports, the start of the national selection and the simultaneous acceptance of applications for participation will soon be announced.
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It is noted that that a participant with his own song can submit an application.
Last year, the competition was held in Paris, and 19 countries took part in it. The victory was won by 14-year-old Malena. For Armenia, this was already the second victory at the contest, it hosted the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2011.
Ukraine was represented in Paris by 11-year-old Olena Usenko with the song “Vazhyl”, she took sixth place at the contest.< /p>
The Children's Eurovision Song Contest was held for the first time in 2003, since then a total of 40 countries have participated in it. Ukraine has been participating in the competition since 2006. In 2012, the representative of our country, Nastya Petryk, won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Sky”. In 2008 and 2013, Ukraine took second place at the competition.
We remind you that the Kalush Orchesta won Eurovision 2022, which at the end of its performance called for help to Ukraine and to save Azovstal.
strong> The group received 631 points, while 439 points were given by the audience.
On June 17, the EBU announced that Ukraine will not be able to accept Eurovision 2023. Oleksandr Tkachenko, the Minister of Culture and Information Policy of our country, criticized this decision and demanded its revision. Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, also stated that the competition should be held in Ukraine. This country took second place at Eurovision 2022.
On July 25, it became known that Great Britain will be the host country of the contest next year.
