Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Ukraine took part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in 2006. Their best result came in Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2012 when Anastasiya Petryk won for Ukraine with "Nebo". Her sister Viktoria Petryk came 2nd at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with "Matrosy".

Ukraine
Member stationUA:PBC
National selection events
Participation summary
Appearances15
First appearance2006
Best result1st: 2012
External links
Ukraine's page at Eurovision.tv
For the most recent participation see
Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020

It was announced in June 2008 that Ukraine was selected to host the 2009 contest, which was held 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. After Kim-Lian van der Meij from the Netherlands, Timur Miroshnychenko was the second person to host the contest twice, this time with Zlata Ognevich.

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
Table key
1
 Winner
2
 Second place
◁
 Last place
Year Artist Song Language Place Points
2006
 Nazar Slyusarchuk "Khlopchyk Rock 'n' Roll" (Хлопчик рок 'н' ролл) Ukrainian 9 58
2007
 Ilona Galitska "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
 Yulia 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 - Start with Yourself" (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" (Відкривай) Ukrainian, English 7 106

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, NTU, 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.
2005 Timur MiroshnychenkoDid not participate
2006 Assol
2007
2008 Marietta
2009 Mariya Orlova
2010 Timur MiroshnychenkoElizabeth Arfush
2011 Amanda Koenig
2012 Kristall
2013 Tetiana TerekhovaElizabeth Arfush
2014 Timur MiroshnychenkoSofia Tarasova
2015 Sofia Kutsenko
2016 Anna Trincher
2017 Sofia Rol
2018 Anastasiya Baginska
2019 Darina Krasnovetska
[4]
2020 Sophia Ivanko
[5]

Hostings
Year Location Venue Presenters
2009 Kyiv Palace of Sports Ani Lorak and Timur Miroshnychenko
2013 Kyiv Palace "Ukraine" Zlata Ognevich and Timur Miroshnychenko

See also

References
  1. "Ukraine: Withdraws from Junior Eurovision". Eurovoix. 2 July 2018.
  2. "Surprise!Ukraine joins as 20th country for Minsk 2018". EBU. 2 August 2018.
  3. Fisher, Luke James (21 November 2015). "Tonight: Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015!". Junior Eurovision Song Contest – Bulgaria 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  4. "ᴅᴀʀɪɴᴀ ᴋʀᴀsɴᴏᴠᴇᴛsᴋᴀ on Instagram: "З радістю передаю естафету @sophy.ivanko 🤝🇺🇦 Я знаю яке це важке та відповідальне завдання - представляти свою країну на міжнародному…"". instagram.com (in Ukrainian). 10 October 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  5. Farren, Neil (2020-11-25). "Ukraine: Sophia Ivanko Revealed As Spokesperson for Junior Eurovision 2020". Eurovoix. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
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