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Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest | |
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Participating broadcaster | Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (UA:PBC) |
Participation summary | |
Appearances | 18 |
First appearance | 2006 |
Highest placement | 1st: 2012 |
Host | 2009, 2013 |
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UA:PBC page | |
Ukraine's page at JuniorEurovision.tv ![]() | |
![]() Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 |
Ukraine has participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest since 2006. Ukrainian public broadcaster UA:PBC, has been responsible for the participation.
Ukraine won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the song "Nebo" performed by Anastasiya Petryk. Her sister, Viktoria Petryk, reached 2nd place at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with "Matrosy".
The country hosted the 2009 contest at the Palace of Sports in Kyiv on 21 November 2009. On 30 November 2013, Ukraine once again hosted the competition, this time at Palace "Ukraine" in Kyiv. Kyiv is the first city to host the contest twice, while Ukraine was then the second country after the Netherlands to host the competition twice.
On 2 July 2018, UA:PBC initially announced that they would not take part in the 2018 contest in Minsk, Belarus due to financial difficulties. [1] However, on 2 August 2018, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) announced that UA:PBC would participate in 2018. [2]
1 | First place |
2 | Second place |
◁ | Last place |
† | Upcoming event |
Year | Artist | Song | Language | Place | Points |
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2006 | Nazar Slyusarchuk | "Khlopchyk Rock 'n' Roll" (Хлопчик рок 'н' ролл) | Ukrainian | 9 | 58 |
2007 | Ilona Halytska | "Urok hlamuru" (Урок гламуру) | Ukrainian | 9 | 56 |
2008 | Viktoria Petryk | "Matrosy" (Матроси) | Ukrainian | 2 | 135 |
2009 | Andranik Alexanyan | "Try topoli, try surmy" (Три тополі, три сурми) | Ukrainian | 5 | 89 |
2010 | Yuliya Gurska | "Miy litak" (Мій літак) | Ukrainian | 14 ◁ | 28 |
2011 | Kristall | "Evropa" (Європа) | Ukrainian, English | 11 | 42 |
2012 | Anastasiya Petryk | " Nebo " (Небо) | Ukrainian, English | 1 | 138 |
2013 | Sofia Tarasova | "We Are One" | Ukrainian, English | 2 | 121 |
2014 | Sympho-Nick | "Spring Will Come" | Ukrainian, English | 6 | 74 |
2015 | Anna Trincher | "Pochny z sebe" (Почни з себе) | Ukrainian, English | 11 | 38 |
2016 | Sofia Rol | "Planet Craves for Love" | Ukrainian, English | 14 | 30 |
2017 | Anastasiya Baginska | "Don't Stop" | Ukrainian, English | 7 | 147 |
2018 | Darina Krasnovetska | "Say Love" | Ukrainian, English | 4 | 182 |
2019 | Sophia Ivanko | "The Spirit of Music" | Ukrainian, English | 15 | 59 |
2020 | Oleksandr Balabanov | "Vidkryvai (Open Up)" (Відкривай) | Ukrainian, English | 7 | 106 |
2021 | Olena Usenko | "Vazhil" (Важіль) | Ukrainian | 6 | 125 |
2022 | Zlata Dziunka | "Nezlamna (Unbreakable)" (Незламна) | Ukrainian, English | 9 | 111 |
2023 | Anastasia Dymyd | "Kvitka" (Квітка) | Ukrainian, English | 5 | 128 |
2024 | TBD September 2024 † [3] [4] | Upcoming † |
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The contests are broadcast online worldwide through the official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website junioreurovision.tv and YouTube. In 2015, the online broadcasts featured commentary in English by junioreurovision.tv editor Luke Fisher and 2011 Bulgarian Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrant Ivan Ivanov. [5] The Ukrainian broadcaster sent their own commentators to the contest in order to provide commentary in the Ukrainian language. Spokespersons were also chosen by the national broadcaster in order to announce the awarding points from Ukraine. The table below list the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2005.
Year | Commentator | Spokesperson | Ref. |
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2005 | Timur Miroshnychenko | Did not participate | |
2006 | Assol | ||
2007 | |||
2008 | Marietta | ||
2009 | Mariya Orlova | ||
2010 | Timur Miroshnychenko | Elizabeth Arfush | |
2011 | Amanda Koenig | ||
2012 | Kristall | ||
2013 | Tetiana Terekhova | Elizabeth Arfush | |
2014 | Timur Miroshnychenko | Sofia Tarasova | |
2015 | Sofia Kutsenko | ||
2016 | Anna Trincher | ||
2017 | Sofia Rol | ||
2018 | Anastasiya Baginska | ||
2019 | Darina Krasnovetska | ||
2020 | Sophia Ivanko | ||
2021 | Viktor Diachenko | Oleksandr Balabanov | |
2022 | Timur Miroshnychenko | Mykola Oliinyk | |
2023 | Zlata Dziunka |
Year | Location | Venue | Presenters |
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2009 | Kyiv | Palace of Sports | Ani Lorak and Timur Miroshnychenko |
2013 | Palace "Ukraine" | Zlata Ognevich and Timur Miroshnychenko |
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