Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

has participated in the

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since 2006. Ukrainian public broadcaster UA:PBC, has been responsible for the participation. Ukraine won the

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2012 The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2012 was the tenth edition of the annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest. It took place at the AFAS Live, Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 1 December 2012. Dutch broadcaster AVRO (broadcaster), AV ...

with the song " Nebo" performed by

Anastasiya Petryk Anastasiya Ihorivna "Nastya" Petryk ( uk, Анастасі́я Іго́рівна "Настя" Пе́трик; born 4 May 2002) is a Ukrainian singer. She won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the song " Nebo", becoming the first Ukra ...

. Her sister,

Viktoria Petryk Viktoria Ihorivna "Vika" Petryk ( uk, Вікто́рія Іго́рівна "Віка" Пе́трик; born 21 May 1997) is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter who represented Ukraine at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008, held in Limassol, C ...

, reached 2nd place at the

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with "Matrosy". Ukraine hosted the at the

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on 21 November 2009. On 30 November 2013, Ukraine once again hosted the competition, this time at

Palace "Ukraine" National Palace of Arts "Ukraina" ( uk, Національний палац мистецтв "Україна") or Palace "Ukraina" is one of the main theatre venues for official events along with Palace of Sports in Kyiv, Ukraine. The venue is a ...

. Kyiv is the first city to host the contest twice, while Ukraine was then the second country after the to host the competition twice. On 2 July 2018, UA:PBC initially announced that they would not take part in the contest in

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due to financial difficulties. However, on 2 August 2018, the

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(EBU) announced that UA:PBC would participate in 2018.

Participation overview

Photo gallery

Image:Anastasiya Petryk (Ukraine, winner of JESC 2012).jpg, Anastasiya Petryk in Amsterdam () Image:JESC 2013 (Ukraine) Sofia Tarasova at rehearsal 2.jpg,

Sofia Tarasova Sofia Mikhaylivna Tarasova ( uk, Софія Михайлівна Тарасова; born 31 March 2001) is a Ukrainian singer and actress. She represented Ukraine at the ''Junior Eurovision Song Contest'' 2013, with the song "We Are One", placi ...

in Kyiv () Image:JESC 2014 Sympho-Nick.jpg, Interview with

Sympho-Nick Ukraine selected their Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 entry through a national final which consisted of eighteen songs. The final was held on 9 August 2014 in Bukovel, Ukraine. Sympho-Nick and their song "Pryyde vesna" (Прийде весн� ...

for kidsmusic.info at the contest

Commentators and spokespersons

The contests are broadcast online worldwide through the official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website junioreurovision.tv and

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. 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. The Ukrainian broadcaster sent their own commentators to the contest in order to provide commentary in the

Ukrainian language Ukrainian ( uk, украї́нська мо́ва, translit=ukrainska mova, label=native name, ) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state langu ...

. 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.

Hostings

References

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Participation overview

Photo gallery

Commentators and spokespersons

Hostings

See also

References