Tonight (7th February 2026) the national final to represent Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 took place and after the jury scores and televote scores were combined Leleka won overall and will travel to Vienna, Austria to represent the Eastern European three time champions.
🇺🇦 How it all went down
The artists revealed their placements in the running order following a random draw. After the conclusion of the conference, Suspilne revealed the full songs for the participants on its official YouTube channel. The running order for Vidbir 2026 was as follows:
- Valeriya Force – ‘Open Our Hearts’
- MOLODI – ‘legends’
- Monokate – ‘TYT‘
- The Elliens – ‘Crawling Whispers’
- LAUD – ‘Lightkeeper’
- LELEKA – ‘Ridnym‘
- Mr. Vel – ‘Do Or Done’
- KHAYAT – ‘Hertsy’
- Jerry Heil – ‘CATHARTICUS’
- ShchukaRyba – ‘Moia zemlia‘
Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest
Vidbir was first used to select the country’s song and artist in 2016, which saw Jamala win in Stockholm, Sweden with ‘1944‘. Since their debut in 2003, Ukraine has qualified every year for the grand final, being the only country to have done so and has won the contest on three occasions. In their second year of participation, Ukraine took their maiden victory with Ruslana and the crowd pleasing, tribal anthem, ‘Wild Dances‘.
In 2022 Ukraine achieved their third victory for Kalush Orchestra and ‘Stefania‘. Last year it was the turn of Ziferblat to represent the nation with their entry, ‘Bird of Pray’. During the Basel final, the band finished 9th with 218 points.
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