Ukraine celebrates Eurovision win: Ukrainian President Vladimir Zalansky congratulates local Kalush band on winning Europe's glittering music competition, sending an optimistic message to his people and the world, while his country is in the toughest war Europe has known in the twenty - first century.
"Our courage has impressed the world and now our music has conquered Europe. Next year Ukraine will host the Eurovision Song Contest," the president said in a statement, adding that a day would come and the competition would take place in Mariupol. In the last decades.
Ursula van der Lane, EU Foreign Minister, also congratulated Ukraine on her victory and wrote: "Congratulations to Ukraine on winning the Eurovision Song Contest. We are celebrating your victory around the world. The EU is with you."
The victory in the Theatrical Competition has become the talk of the day among journalists.
Ilya Ponomarenko, a Ukrainian journalist who became one of the best known in the field following the coverage of the battle for Kyiv, echoed on social media Twitter the call to hold the competition next year in the city of Mariupol.
"We'll fix it somehow," the journalist wrote.
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