The Kalush Orchestra group won the victory and the honors of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky who wrote this sentence on his Facebook page: Our courage impresses the world, our music conquers Europe.
Kalush Orchestra, dont la chanson Stefania mixes hip-hop and traditional music, collected 631 points ahead of Briton Sam Ryder and his title Space Man (466 points) and the Spanish singer Chanel with Slo Mon (459 points).
Please help Ukraine and Mariupol! Help Azovstal
called on stage the singer of the Kalush Orchestra, Oleh Psiuk, whose performance was applauded.
Punters had made the group the favorite in the annual competition, which attracts nearly 200 million viewers who can vote with the official jury, due to the fate of Ukraine and its invasion by Russia in February.
As in the two semi-finals held this week in the Piedmontese capital, in northwestern Italy, a wave of blue and yellow flags of the country swept through the arena of the Pala Olimpico, where the 24 finalists.
Winning Eurovision would give us great hope of winning the war [contre la Russie]
confided a Ukrainian admirer, Maria Lembak, 40, in the streets of Turin, a few hours before.
It is Ukraine’s second victory in this competition after that of 2016 – two years after the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea by Russia – with Jamala and the title 1944a song about the deportation of the Tatars by Stalin.