Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Ukraine
Ukraine
Member station	UA:PBC
National selection events	National final 2006–2021 ;
Participation summary
Appearances	16
Host	2009, 2013
First appearance	2006
Highest placement	1st: 2012
External links
	Ukraine's page at JuniorEurovision.tv
	For the most recent participation see; Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021

Ukraine has participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest since 2006. Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne, formerly 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".

Ukraine 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
1	Winner
2	Second place
◁	Last place

Year	Entrant	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 (Open Up)" (Відкривай)	Ukrainian, English	7	106
2021	Olena Usenko	"Vazhil" (Важіль)	Ukrainian	6	125

Photo gallery

Anastasiya Petryk in Amsterdam (2012)
Sofia Tarasova in Kyiv (2013)
Interview with Sympho-Nick for kidsmusic.info at the 2014 contest

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 Miroshnychenko	Did not participate
2006		Assol
2007		Assol
2008		Marietta
2009	Mariya Orlova	Marietta
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	[4]
2020		Sophia Ivanko	[5]
2021	Viktor Diachenko	Oleksandr Balabanov	[6]

Hostings

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

References

"Ukraine: Withdraws from Junior Eurovision". Eurovoix. 2 July 2018.
"Surprise!Ukraine joins as 20th country for Minsk 2018". EBU. 2 August 2018.
Fisher, Luke James (21 November 2015). "Tonight: Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015!". Junior Eurovision Song Contest – Bulgaria 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
"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. Archived from the original on 2021-12-24. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
Farren, Neil (2020-11-25). "Ukraine: Sophia Ivanko Revealed As Spokesperson for Junior Eurovision 2020". Eurovoix. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
Farren, Neil (2021-12-16). "🇺🇦 Ukraine: Junior Eurovision 2021 Spokesperson and Commentator Revealed". Eurovoix.com.

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[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. Archived from the original on 2021-12-24. 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.

[UA:Kultura-6] Farren, Neil (2021-12-16). "🇺🇦 Ukraine: Junior Eurovision 2021 Spokesperson and Commentator Revealed". Eurovoix.com.