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Timur Miroshnychenko hopes that Ukraine will manage to host Eurovision next year!

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Eurovision commentator on behalf of the Ukrainian nation television and one of the hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, Timur Miroshnychenko mentioned in an interview that he hopes Ukraine will be able to host next year’s Eurovision edition!

Timur spoke to Eurovoix’s podcast, where he expressed his optimism for this year’s Ukrainian entry. More specifically, according to him, “Teresa & Maria” has all the qualities needed in order to bring the Eurovision trophy and ultimately, the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 back to Ukraine.

In the upcoming years, maybe next year, we will get the opportunity to host Eurovision in Ukraine. I want all people from different European countries and the rest of the world to have the chance to come to Ukraine and listen themselves all the “thank you” words from Ukrainian people.

Looking back at the Ukrainian victory in 2022, brought by Kalush Orchestra with the song “Stefania”, Timur noted the fact that it would be the most important broadcasting of his career:

Of course we understood that there are millions of people throughout the world who support us… but that night all of us Ukrainians, we realised we are not alone.

Although Ukraine won in 2022, it was not possible for them to host the Contest, due to the ongoing conflict between the country and Russia, after the latter’s attack. Therefore EBU decided to hold the Contest in Liverpool with BBC.

This year, Ukraine is represented by Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil with ‘Teresa & Maria” and right now, they are the big favorite to win the Contest, taking into consideration the betting odds.

Stay tuned at EurovisionFun for all the updates!

Source: Eurovoix

Ukraine: These are the hosts of Vidbir 2024!

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The Ukrainian broadcaster UA:PBC unveiled the hosts of Vidbir 2024. Timur Miroshnychenko, Yuliya Sanina and the stand-up comedian Vasyl Baidak will host the big final.

Timur Miroshnychenko and Yuliya Sanina are no strangers to Eurovision fans.

Timur presented the Eurovision Song Contest in 2017 alongside Oleksandr Skichko and Volodymyr Ostapchuk. Also, he has been covering Eurovision commentary-wise since 2007 and hosted the Junior Eurovision of 2009 and 2013 that took place in Ukraine.

Yuliya Sanina is the frontwoman of the band The HARDKISS and was one of the hosts of last year’s contest in Liverpool.

Anna Tulyeva, the presenter of the videoblog Eurovision Ukraine, will host the backstage and the pre-show of the ukrainian national selection.

We remind you that Vidbir 2024 is set to air on February 3rd at 18:00 CET, live on the UA public TV channel (UA:First). The result will be determined by 50% of public voting and 50% of jury voting.

The finalists of Vidbir 2024 are the following:
  1. YAKTAK — «Lalala»
  2. INGRET — «Keeper»
  3. NAZVA — «Slavic English»
  4. ANKA — «Палала»
  5. Drevo — «Endless chain»
  6. alyona alyona & Jerry Heil — «Teresa & Maria»
  7. MÉLOVIN — «DREAMER»
  8. SKYLERR — «Time is running out»
  9. Ziferblat — «Place I Call Home»
  10. YAGODY — «Tsunamia»
  11. NAHABA — «GLASSS»

 

Stay tuned at EurovisionFun for all the updates!

Source: Suspilne

Ukraine: The hosts of Vidbir 2023 were announced!

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This Saturday, the first national final for Eurovision 2023 is going to take place and it is no other than the Ukrainian national final, Vidbir! On Saturday, February 17 at 16:00 CET we will be able to listen to the first song that is going to be performed live on stage at Liverpool.

Vidbir 2023 will be broadcasted live from the Maidan Nezalezhnosti metro station in Kyiv, with 10 participants taking place. The juries of the show, who were selected after an online voting by the Ukrainian public, will be Taras Topolya, Jamala and Yulia Sanina. Just earlier today, the three hosts of the national final were announced, and these are:

  • Kateryna Pavlenko (Representative in Eurovision 2020 & 2021 as member of GO_A)
  • Timur Miroshnychenko (Ukrainian Commentator and Eurovision 2017 host)
  • Zlata Ognevich (Representative in Eurovision 2013)

We remind you that the 10 participants that claim the Ukrainian representation in Eurovision 2023 are:

  1. Moisei – «I’m Not Alone» 
  2. OY Sound System – «Ой, тужу» (Οh, I miss you)
  3. DEMCHUK – «Alive» 
  4. Jerry Heil – «WHEN GOD SHUT THE DOOR»
  5. FIINKA – «Довбуш» (Dovbush) 
  6. KRUTЬ – «Колискова» (Lullaby) 
  7. Tember Blanche – «Я вдома» (I’m home)
  8. Angelina – «Stronger» 
  9. 2TONE – «Квітка» (Flower) 
  10. TVORCHI – «Heart Of Steel»

The winner will be decided through a combination of jury vote and public vote.

Despite coming second in Vidbir, Ukraine’s reprentatives, Kalush Orchestra were also the winners of Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with their song “Stefania”:

https://youtu.be/F1fl60ypdLs

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Ukrainian participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, in Liverpool!

Timur Miroshnychenko talks on Ukraine’s victory and the 2023 contest

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Eurovision 2017 and Junior Eurovision 2009 and 2013 host, Timur Miroshnychenko, spoke to The Euro Trip podcast on commentating for Ukrainian television from a bomb shelter, his feelings after Kalush Orchestra won and hosting the 2023 contest.

Timur has been commentating Eurovision for Ukraine since 2007, with the exception of 2017 when he hosted the contest along Oleksandr Skichko and Volodymyr Ostapchuk. His reaction to Ukraine’s third victory in the contest while commentating from a bomb shelter, made headlines. When asked what did he say when Ukraine was announced as a winner, he replies:

First of all I’ve said that this victory is dedicated to the armed forces of Ukraine, because of their heroism we had an opportunity to participate in this year Eurovision, and to be with the free world. On 24th of February we didn’t think about Eurovision of course we just thought about how to stay alive, and in May just 2 1/2 months after that date, we were there and right now we think where to host next year.

He revealed that on the second day of the war he had to fled Kiev with his family and go to the West of Ukraine, while he had to go back and volunteer on various occasions. Being one of the hosts of the most popular morning show on Ukrainian television, which was relaunched a few weeks after the Russian invasion, he feels that he helps from his part to uplift the morale of Ukrainians and that is what he also tried to do while commentating Eurovision.

Miroshnychenko praised Kalush Orchestra and explained that “Stefania” became an unofficial anthem of Ukraine even before their victory, when it was the soundtrack of thousands of posts from people in the frontline fleeing the country. When asked for the meaning of this victory to Ukrainians, he tells The Euro Trip podcast:

When the hosts announced the results we just blew up with emotions. I received  hundreds of thousands of messages on social media from Ukrainian people who have written to me “we cried with you” […] On 24th of February all of us thought that we are alone in this war, and the result of this year’s Eurovision is like a sign for all of us that hey guys we are here, we stand by you everything is gonna be ok.

When it comes on hosting next years contest, Timur says that he strongly believes in the Ukrainian armed forces and he hopes that the war will end soon, enabling Ukraine to welcome everyone and use this opportunity to thank them for their support during these difficult times. He also notes that this decision will be taken at a later stage but he believes that cities like Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa and Dnipro who had no big damages from the war, will be able to host next year’s Eurovision.

Below you can listen to the full interview of Timur Miroshnychenko

Do you think Ukraine will host Eurovision 2023? Tells us in the comments!