won it three times
Ukraine at Eurovision
Ukraine first sang at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2003 and has entered 21 contests. It has won three times: in 2004, 2016 and 2022. The contest has been held there twice, most recently in Kyiv in 2017.
- 21
- contests
- 3
- wins
- 2
- hosted
- first song
- 2003
- contests
- 21
- wins
- 3 — 2004, 2016, 2022
- second place
- 2 — 2007, 2008
- in the final
- 20 of 20 tries since semi-finals began in 2004
- sung in
- English (19), Ukrainian (8), German (1), Surzhyk (1), Crimean Tatar (1)
- hosted
- Kyiv 2005, Kyiv 2017
- not in the line-up
- 2015, 2019
The three wins
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2004, Istanbul “Wild Dances”
Ruslana · 280 points
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2016, Stockholm “1944”
Jamala · 534 points
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2022, Turin “Stefania (Стефанія)”
Kalush Orchestra · 631 points
Photos are stills from the contest’s own videos on YouTube. Each one opens that year’s story.
Every song
All 22 entries, newest first. The year opens the story of that contest; the name opens the artist.
| Year | Artist | Song | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Vienna | Leléka | “Ridnym (Рідним)” English, Ukrainian | 9th of 25 | 221 |
| 2025 Basel | Ziferblat | “Bird of Pray” Ukrainian, English | 9th of 26 | 218 |
| 2024 Malmö | Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil | “Teresa & Maria” Ukrainian, English | 3rd of 26 | 453 |
| 2023 Liverpool | Tvorchi | “Heart of Steel” English, Ukrainian | 6th of 26 | 243 |
| 2022 Turin | Kalush Orchestra | “Stefania (Стефанія)” Ukrainian | winner! | 631 |
| 2021 Rotterdam | Go_A | “Shum (Шум)” Ukrainian | 5th of 26 | 364 |
| 2020 Rotterdam | Go_A | “Solovey (Соловей)” Ukrainian | Contest cancelled | — |
| 2018 Lisbon | Mélovin | “Under the Ladder” English | 17th of 26 | 130 |
| 2017 Kyiv | O.Torvald | “Time” English | 24th of 26 | 36 |
| 2016 Stockholm | Jamala | “1944” English, Crimean Tatar | winner! | 534 |
| 2014 Copenhagen | Mariya Yaremchuk | “Tick-Tock” English | 6th of 26 | 113 |
| 2013 Malmö | Zlata Ognevich | “Gravity” English | 3rd of 26 | 214 |
| 2012 Baku | Gaitana | “Be My Guest” English | 15th of 26 | 65 |
| 2011 Düsseldorf | Mika Newton | “Angel” English | 4th of 25 | 159 |
| 2010 Oslo | Alyosha | “Sweet People” English | 10th of 25 | 108 |
| 2009 Moscow | Svetlana Loboda | “Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)” English | 12th of 25 | 76 |
| 2008 Belgrade | Ani Lorak | “Shady Lady” English | 2nd of 25 | 230 |
| 2007 Helsinki | Verka Serduchka | “Dancing Lasha Tumbai” German, English, Surzhyk | 2nd of 24 | 235 |
| 2006 Athens | Tina Karol | “Show Me Your Love” English | 7th of 24 | 145 |
| 2005 Kyiv | GreenJolly | “Razom nas bahato (Разом нас багато)” Ukrainian, English | 19th of 24 | 30 |
| 2004 Istanbul | Ruslana | “Wild Dances” English, Ukrainian | winner! | 280 |
| 2003 Riga | Olexandr | “Hasta la vista” English | 14th of 26 | 30 |
Points for a song that went out in a semi-final are its semi-final points. Before 2004 there were no semi-finals: every song sang on the one night.
Sent more than once
The one act Ukraine has sent to more than one contest.
- Go A 2020 (cancelled), 2021
Hosting
The two contests held in Ukraine.
On air at home
The channels that carried the contest in Ukraine, year by year, and who commentated where our source names them. Newest first.
- 2026
- Suspilne Kultura (semi-final 1) Timur Miroshnychenko and Vasyl Baidak
- Suspilne Kultura (semi-final 2) Timur Miroshnychenko and Svitlana Tarabarova
- Suspilne Kultura (final) Timur Miroshnychenko and Alyona Alyona
- 2025
- Suspilne Kultura (semi-final 1) Timur Miroshnychenko and Olexandr Pedan
- Suspilne Kultura (semi-final 2) Timur Miroshnychenko and Vlad Kuran
- Suspilne Kultura (final) Timur Miroshnychenko and Alyona Alyona
- Suspilne Kultura Ukrainian Sign Language: Tetiana Zhurkova, Anfisa Boldusieva, Oleksandr Rudyk and Lada Sokoliuk
- Radio Promin (semi-finals) Dmytro Zakharchenko and Lesia Antypenko
- Radio Promin (final) Anna Zakletska and Denys Denysenko
- 2024
- Suspilne Kultura (semi-finals) Ukrainian: Timur Miroshnychenko
- Suspilne Kultura (final) Ukrainian: Timur Miroshnychenko and Vasyl Baidak
- Suspilne Kultura Ukrainian Sign Language: Tetiana Zhurkova, Inna Petrova, Iryna Skolotova, Yuliia Porplik, Anfisa Boldusieva and Lada Sokoliuk
- Radio Promin Dmytro Zakharchenko and Lesia Antypenko
- 2023
- Suspilne Kultura Timur Miroshnychenko
- Radio Promin (final) Oleksandra Franko and Oleksandr Barbelen
- 2022
- UA:Kultura Timur Miroshnychenko
- UA:Radio Promin (semi-finals) Timur Miroshnychenko
- UA:Radio Promin (final) Anna Zakletska and Dmytro Zakharchenko
- 2021
- UA:First Timur Miroshnychenko
- UA:Ukrainian Radio (final) Olena Zelinchenko
- UA:Radio Promin (final) Anna Zakletska and Dmytro Zakharchenko
- STB Serhiy Prytula
- 2019
- UA:First Timur Miroshnychenko
- STB Serhiy Prytula
- 2018
- STB Serhiy Prytula
- UA:First (semi-final 1) Timur Miroshnychenko and Mariya Yaremchuk
- UA:First (semi-final 2) Timur Miroshnychenko and Alyosha
- UA:First (final) Timur Miroshnychenko and Jamala
- 2017
- UA:First Tetyana Terekhova and Andriy Horodyskyi
- Ukrainian Radio Olena Zelinchenko and Roman Kolyada
- 2016
- UA:Pershyi Timur Miroshnychenko and Tetyana Terekhova
- UR Olena Zelinchenko
- 2015
- UA:Pershyi Timur Miroshnychenko and Tetyana Terekhova
- 2014
- Pershyi Natsionalnyi Timur Miroshnychenko and Tetyana Terekhova
- UR-2 Olena Zelinchenko
- 2013
- Pershyi Natsionalnyi Timur Miroshnychenko and Tetyana Terekhova
- UR-1 Olena Zelinchenko
- 2012
- Pershyi Natsionalnyi Timur Miroshnychenko and Tetyana Terekhova
- 2011
- Pershyi Natsionalnyi Timur Miroshnychenko and Tetyana Terekhova
- UR Olena Zelinchenko
- 2009
- Pershyi Natsionalnyi
- 2008
- Pershyi Natsionalnyi Timur Miroshnychenko
- 2007
- Pershyi Natsionalnyi
- 2006
- Pershyi Natsionalnyi Pavlo Shylko
- 2005
- Pershyi Natsionalnyi Yaroslav Chornenkyi
- UR Galyna Babiy
- 2004
- Pershyi Natsionalnyi Rodion Pryntsevsky
- 2003
- Pershyi Natsionalnyi Dmytro Kryzhanivskyi
- 2002
- Pershyi Natsionalnyi
In our contest stories
Lines about Ukraine from our story of each contest. Follow a link for the rest of that night.
- 2003 What was new
Ukraine was added at the last minute and made its debut.
- 2004 The result
Ukraine had made its debut only the year before.
- 2005
The fiftieth contest went to Kyiv, a year after Ukraine won at only its second attempt.
- 2005
Ukraine's new government hoped for something bigger: a small push towards joining the European Union.
- 2007 The result
Marija Šerifović sang "Molitva" and finished on 268 points, 33 ahead of Ukraine's Verka Serduchka.
- 2008
Ukraine, the runner-up, was one option.
- 2008 The result
Dima Bilan, runner-up two years before, came back with "Believe" and finished on 272 points, 42 ahead of Ukraine's Ani Lorak.
- 2014 Crimea
The contest came immediately after the revolution in Ukraine and Russia's annexation of Crimea.
- 2014 Crimea
The ruling was that votes cast through Ukrainian telephone networks there counted as Ukraine's.
- 2015 Vienna
Ukraine was missing, kept away by the financial and political crisis of its war.
- 2016 Jurors behaving badly
Corrected, it would have cut Ukraine's winning margin from 23 points to nine.
- 2016 The result
Ukraine's Jamala was second with the juries and second with the public, and that was enough: 534 points, to 511 for Australia's Dami Im and 491 for Russia's Sergey Lazarev.
- 2017 Russia and Ukraine
Ten days later Ukraine's security service banned her from the country for three years.
- 2017 Russia and Ukraine
The EBU's director-general condemned Ukraine's decision as an abuse of the contest for political ends.
- 2022
Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
- 2022
Eleven weeks later Ukraine won the Eurovision Song Contest, with more votes from the public than any song had ever received.
Results as published by the European Broadcasting Union. “Not in the line-up” means no song from Ukraine was in that year’s contest, whatever the reason. Spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.