by Ilay Gaist Comment Closed




Ukrainian National Broadcaster, Suspilne, announced the final contestant for “Vidbir 2025”, and revealed the date for releasing competing songs. FIЇNKA won the last spot with the song “Kultura”, receiving 30% of votes.

The Ukrainian National Broadcaster, Suspilne, has disclosed that FIЇNKA has secured the last entry ticket to the Ukrainian Eurovision pre-selection, “Vidbir 2025”, scheduled for February 8th, 2025. Her song “Культура” (“Kultura”, in English: “Culture”) garnered approximately 30% of the votes, equivalent to about 80,000 votes, and also received support from Ukraine’s Eurovision 2024 representatives, Alyona Alyona & Jerry Heil. Furthermore, the National Broadcaster announced that the other nine songs competing in the pre-selection will be unveiled on January 23rd, 2025!




List of Contestants in “Vidbir 2025” National Final

  1. Future Culture — “Waste My Time”
  2. KHAYAT — “HONOR”
  3. KRYLATA — “STAY TRUE”
  4. MOLODI — “My Sea”
  5. Ziferblat — “Bird of Pray“
  6. Abyei — “Dim”
  7. DK Energetik — “Sil”
  8. Masha Kondratenko — “No Time to Cry”
  9. Vlad Sherif – “Wind of Change”
  10. FIЇNKA – “Kultura“

Among the pre-selection contestants are several familiar names

  • Ziferblat – Competed in last year’s Ukrainian Eurovision pre-selection, finishing second with their song “Place I Call Home“.
  • KHAYAT – Participated in the 2020 Ukrainian Eurovision pre-selection with his song “Call for Love“, finishing second.
  • FIЇNKA – Competed in the 2023 Ukrainian Eurovision pre-selection, finishing fourth with her song “Dovbush“.



Vidbir 2025 judges:

  • Jamala: The winner of Eurovision 2016 with the song “1944“, who also judged last year’s pre-selection. This will be her seventh time judging the Ukrainian Eurovision pre-selection, and she received 35.28% of the votes this year.
  • Serhiy Tanchynets: The lead singer of the band BEZ Limitations, who also judged last year’s pre-selection and received 20.24% of the votes this year.
  • Kateryna Pavlenko: The lead singer of the band Go_A, who represented Ukraine in Eurovision 2021, finishing fifth (and was scheduled to represent the country in Eurovision 2020, which was canceled). She received 11.84% of the votes.



Ukraine in Eurovision 2024

Jerry Heil and Alyona Alyona represented Ukraine at Eurovision 2024 with the song “Teresa & Maria.” The duo won the Ukrainian national selection “Vidbir 2024” and finished third in the Eurovision final with 453 points.

Their entry is notable for being the first since 2002 to place in the top 5 while performing second in the running order, a position traditionally considered challenging in Eurovision statistics.

Source: Suspilne.

Eurovision 2025: This will be Ukraine’s 20th participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. Ukraine joined the competition in 2003 and has won it three times. Ukraine’s last victory was in Eurovision 2022 with the song “Stefania” performed by Kalush Orchestra.