Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

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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
Appearances19
First appearance 2006
Highest placement1st: 2012
Host 2009, 2013
Participation history
    • 2006
    • 2007
    • 2008
    • 2009
    • 2010
    • 2011
    • 2012
External links
UA:PBC page
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Song contest current event.png For the most recent participation see
Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024

Ukraine has participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest since 2006. Ukrainian public broadcaster UA:PBC, has been responsible for the participation.

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History

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]

Participation overview

Table key
1First place
2Second place
3Third place
◁Last place
†Upcoming event
YearArtistSongLanguagePlacePoints
2006 Nazar Slyusarchuk"Khlopchyk Rock 'n' Roll" (Хлопчик рок 'н' ролл) Ukrainian 958
2007 Ilona Halytska"Urok hlamuru" (Урок гламуру)Ukrainian956
2008 Viktoria Petryk "Matrosy" (Матроси)Ukrainian2135
2009 Andranik Alexanyan"Try topoli, try surmy" (Три тополі, три сурми)Ukrainian589
2010 Yuliya Gurska"Miy litak" (Мій літак)Ukrainian14 ◁28
2011 Kristall"Evropa" (Європа)Ukrainian, English1142
2012 Anastasiya Petryk " Nebo " (Небо)Ukrainian, English1138
2013 Sofia Tarasova "We Are One"Ukrainian, English2121
2014 Sympho-Nick"Spring Will Come"Ukrainian, English674
2015 Anna Trincher"Pochny z sebe" (Почни з себе)Ukrainian, English1138
2016 Sofia Rol"Planet Craves for Love"Ukrainian, English1430
2017 Anastasiya Baginska"Don't Stop"Ukrainian, English7147
2018 Darina Krasnovetska"Say Love"Ukrainian, English4182
2019 Sophia Ivanko"The Spirit of Music"Ukrainian, English1559
2020 Oleksandr Balabanov"Vidkryvai (Open Up)" (Відкривай)Ukrainian, English7106
2021 Olena Usenko"Vazhil" (Важіль)Ukrainian6125
2022 Zlata Dziunka"Nezlamna (Unbreakable)" (Незламна)Ukrainian, English9111
2023 Anastasia Dymyd"Kvitka" (Квітка)Ukrainian, English5128
2024 Artem Kotenko"Hear Me Now"Ukrainian, English3203

Commentators and spokespersons

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. [3] 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.

YearCommentatorSpokespersonRef.
2005 Timur Miroshnychenko Did not participate
[4]
2006 Assol
[5]
2007
2008 Marietta
2009 Mariya Orlova
2010 Timur MiroshnychenkoElizabeth Arfush
2011 Amanda Koenig
[6]
2012 Kristall
2013 Tetiana Terekhova Elizabeth Arfush
[7]
2014 Timur Miroshnychenko Sofia Tarasova
2015 Sofia Kutsenko
2016 Anna Trincher
[8]
2017 Sofia Rol
[9]
2018 Anastasiya Baginska
2019 Darina Krasnovetska
2020 Sophia Ivanko
2021 Viktor Diachenko Oleksandr Balabanov
2022 Timur MiroshnychenkoMykola Oliinyk
2023 Zlata Dziunka
2024 Anastasia Dymyd

Hostings

YearLocationVenuePresenters
2009 Kyiv Palace of Sports Ani Lorak and Timur Miroshnychenko
2013 Palace "Ukraine" Zlata Ognevich and Timur Miroshnychenko

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