Ukraine will select its representative for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Malta on September 13.

Suspilne has announced that the final of the Ukrainian Junior Eurovision selection will be held on September 13 from 17:00 CEST. The Ukrainian public broadcaster also announced that the Directors and Producers of the selection are Lesya Podolyanko and Ilya Osyadlyi.

Fifteen singers have been longlisted to compete in the Ukrainian selection for Junior Eurovision, from which ten have progressed to Star School which is currently being held in Bukovel. The fifteen acts that were longlisted by the Ukrainian broadcaster are:

VYHOR (Mariia Vaskivska, Tina Kolodiichuk, Zoriana Panchenko, Daria Udovychenko, Oleksandra Svarnyk and Kateryna Yaiuk)

Mariia Blyznuk

Kateryna Vatan

Sofiia & Veronika Voznika

Vladyslav Danielvskyi

Roman Doroshenko

Sofiia Dupelych

Dmytro Karabet

Erika Kolesnichenko

Sofiia Nazarenko

Anastasiia Pshedina

Marko Serdynskyi

Zlata Solonenko

Oliviia Tkachyk

Karina Shtefanesa

Star School is taking place in the Children’s Camp ‘One Land’ in Bukovel in the Carpathian Mountains. Star School will see 10 singers develop their creative abilities, improve their vocal skills, choreography and acting, and will be used to select the six finalists in the Ukrainian selection.

 combination of a professional jury (50%) and public voting (50%) will select the Ukrainian representative for Ta’ Qali.

Sofia Neresesian represented Ukraine at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with “Motanka”. She won the public vote and finished second overall with 177 points. This was Ukraine’s best result at Junior Eurovision since 2013.

Source: Suspilne

Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest+

Ukraine debuted in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2006 and has competed in the contest ever since. To date, Ukraine has only won the competition once. In 2012, Anastasiya Petryk won in Amsterdam with the song “Nebo”. She scored 138 points, including eight sets of 12 points. Ukraine has hosted the contest twice, the first time in 2009 and the second in 2013 following their victory in Amsterdam.