Today, the fifteen longlisted acts are competing in auditions for ten places in the next round of the Ukrainian selection for Junior Eurovision 2026.
Auditions will take place this afternoon in Kyiv at Respublika Park from 15:00 CEST, with fifteen acts performing for the public and a jury. The fifteen longlisted singers will be competing for ten places in โStar School โ, and hope to impress singer and producer Svitlana Tarabarova, Eurovision 2024 representative Alyona Alyona and Eurovision 2018 representative MรLOVIN.
The fifteen hopeful acts are:
- Band VYHOR (Mariia Vaskivska (13), Tina Kolodiichuk (9), Zoriana Panchenko (13), Daria Udovychenko (12), Oleksandra Svarnyk (14) and Kateryna Yaiuk (11))
- Mariia Blyznuk (11)
- Kateryna Vatan (12)
- Sofiia & Veronika Voznika (12 & 10)
- Vladyslav Danielvskyi (11)
- Roman Doroshenko (12)
- Sofiia Dupelych (14)
- Dmytro Karabet (10)
- Erika Kolesnichenko (11)
- Sofiia Nazarenko (10)
- Anastasiia Pshedina (9)
- Marko Serdynskyi (12)
- Zlata Solonenko (11)
- Oliviia Tkachyk (10)
- Karina Shtefanesa (10)
Anna Tuleva and Dmitry Zakharchenko will host the show which will also feature performances from past Ukrainian Junior Eurovision representatives Sofiia Nersesian, Artem Kotenko and Anastasiia Dymyd.
Source: Suspilne