| Contest: | Junior |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Country: | Ukraine |
| Preselection: | National final |
| Preselection Date: | 18 September 2022 |
| Entrant: | Zlata Dziunka |
| Song: | Nezlamna (Unbreakable) |
| Final Result: | 9th, 111 points |
competed in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Armenia, which was held on 11 December 2022 in Yerevan.[1] The country was represented by Zlata Dziunka (born 1 December 2008) with the song "Nezlamna (Unbreakable)", who won the national selection organised by the Ukrainian broadcaster Suspilne.[2]
See main article: Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
Prior to the 2022 contest, Ukraine had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest fifteen times since its debut in .[3] Ukraine never missed a contest since their debut appearance,[4] and won the contest once in with the song "Ukrainian: [[Nebo (Anastasiya Petryk song)|Nebo]]|i=unset", performed by Anastasiya Petryk.[5] The Ukrainian capital Kyiv has hosted the contest twice, at the Palace of Sports in,[6] and the Palace "Ukraine" in .[7] In the contest, Olena Usenko represented the country in Paris, France with the song the "Vazhil", placing 6th out of 19 entries with 125 points.
The Ukrainian broadcaster announced on 1 August 2022 that they would be participating at the 2022 contest.[8]
The final, which took place on 18 September 2022, featured five acts vying to represent Ukraine in Yerevan. The winner was selected via the 50/50 combination of votes from an online vote and an expert jury, the members of which were chosen by the public. The online voting, taking place via Suspilne's official website junioreurovision.ua, was opened on 16 September and closed before the show, and was reopened for 15 minutes after all songs were performed. Both the public televote and the expert jury will assign scores ranging from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest) and the entry that has the highest number of points following the combination of these scores is declared the winner. In the event of a tie, the jurors were to be tasked with assessing and individually voting for their favourite. The voting for the expert jury was organised via Suspilne's official website junioreurovision.ua.[9] Ten candidates were presented to the public and a voting was open from 30 August to 6 September 2022, with the three candidates topping the online voting being invited to become jurors of the show. All candidates to become expert jurors were:
The three selected jury members with the most votes were announced on 13 September 2022.[10] Khrystyna Soloviy was chosen as the head juror, forming the jury panel together with Myroslava Saliy and Anzhelika Rudnytska.
The submissions for the national selection with original songs from Ukrainian citizens or Ukrainians living in other countries were accepted until 23 August 2022, with participants being required to submit a live performance of their entries recorded on a laptop or telephone without any alterations made to the recording.[11] [12] Five acts were selected from over 50 received submissions to proceed to the final, which were announced on 6 September 2022.[13] [14]
The final took place on 18 September 2022, hosted by Timur Miroshnychenko in Kyiv and was broadcast on Suspilne Kultura as well as online via Suspilne's Facebook and YouTube channels.[15] The results were determined by a combination of jury and online vote.[16] Due to a tie in the final results, the jurors each voted individually for their winner, with Sofia Artemenko & DJ Polinka receiving 1 vote and Zlata Dziunka receiving 2 votes, therefore winning the final.[17]
| Artist | Song | Jury | Online voting | Total | Place | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sofia Artemenko & DJ Polinka | "Zamovliannia" | 4 | 5 | 9 | 2 | |
| 2 | Zlata Dziunka | "Nezlamna" | 5 | 4 | 9 | 1 | |
| 3 | Yelyzaveta Petruk | "Pisnia pro lelechat" | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| 4 | Daria Rebrova | "Paporoti kvitka" | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | |
| 5 | Diana Stasiuk | "We Are the Future" | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
After the opening ceremony, which took place on 5 December 2022, it was announced that Ukraine would perform sixteenth (last) on 11 December 2022, following Armenia.[18]
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