Suspilne has revealed the guest acts that will join the stage of Vidbir 2026, the Ukrainian selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026.
The Ukrainian broadcaster Suspilne has announced the acts that have been invited to perform as guests on the stage of Vidbir 2026, the country’s national selection for Eurovision 2026. The guest acts are:
- Ziferblat: the opening act will be the performance of the winner of Vidbir 2025 and representatives of Ukraine at Eurovision 2025 in Basel. They will perform their entry “Bird of Pray”, which awarded the band the 9th place at Eurovision last year and will be part of the finalists’ parade.
- Svitlana Tarabarova: the music producer of Natsvidbir na Dytiache Yevrobachennia, the Ukrainian National Selection for Junior Eurovision, will be joined by the last three representatives Sofiia Nersesyan, Artem Kotenko, and Anastasia Dymyd. The highlight of this number will be musicians from the Superhumans Center.
- Zlata Ognevich, jury member and representative for Ukraine at Eurovision 2013, and the band TVORCHI, who represented Ukraine at Eurovision 2023. They will performa mash-up of their songs “One day” and “Bonfire”
- Jamala, jury member, representative for Ukraine at Eurovision 2016, former Eurovision winner, and musical producer for Vidbir 2026. She will sing her winning entry “1944” accompanied by the Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
- Satoshi, who will represent Moldova at Eurovision 2026. For the first time in recent years, an international guest will perform at Vidbir. He will sing the entry ” Viva, Moldova!”, with which he will represent his country at the contest in Vienna.
Vidbir 2026
The final of Vidbir 2026 will take place on February 7. A professional jury and public voting will choose the Ukrainian representative for Vienna. The jury is composed of:
- Kostyantyn Tomilchenko, Director, Choreographer, and Producer.
- Ruslana, representative of Ukraine at Eurovision 2004 and former Eurovision winner;
- Zlata Ognevich, representative of Ukraine at Eurovision 2013;
- Yevhen Filatov, Singer and Composer;
- Vitaly Drozdov, General Producer of the media holding “TAVR Media” and Director of “HitFM”;
The show will be hosted by Lesya Nikityuk and Timur Miroshnychenko, while Anna Tuleva will present the pre-show. The running order for Vidbir 2026 is as follows:
- Valeriya Force – “Open Our Hearts”
- MOLODI – “THE LEGENDS”
- Monokate – “TUT” (Here)
- The Elliens – “Crawling whispers”
- LAUD – “Lightkeeper”
- LELÉKA – “Ridnym” (To relatives)
- Mr. Vel – “Do or Done”
- KHAYAT – “Hertsi” (Hertz)
- Jerry Heil – “CATHARTICUS (prayer)”
- ShchukaRyba – “Moia zemlia” (My land)
Ziferblat represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel with their song “Bird of Pray”. The band finished in 9th place with a total of 218 points.
Source: Suspilne
Ukraine first participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2003, when Oleksandr Ponomariov performed “Hasta la vista”. The following year, Ruslana brought the country their first win with the song “Wild Dances”. It was a feat that would be replicated in 2016 by Jamala with her song “1944”, which scored 534 points to take victory in Stockholm. In 2017, O.Torvald represented the country on home soil with the song “Time”. The group finished in 24th place, Ukraine’s worst result at the contest to date. Kalush Orchestra gave Ukraine their third victory in 2022 with “Stefania”. Ukraine is one of only two remaining countries with a 100% semi-final qualification record.
