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Alyona alyona and Jerry Heil will go to Eurovision 2024 from Ukraine

Alyona alyona & Jerry Heil with the song Teresa & Maria won the final of the national selection for Eurovision 2024, according to

They received the most votes from Ukrainians in the Diia app.

Ukrainian singer Jerry Heil has already participated in the national selection twice – in 2020 and 2022. And for rapper alyona alyona, this is the first National Selection for Eurovision.

The artists have joint tracks “KUPALA”, “Viter viie” and “Dai Boh”.

In total, 1,167,176 Ukrainians voted for their favourite in the Diia app.

Here is how the jury of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 voted:

• Ziferblat – Place I Call Home – 11 points;
• alyona alyona & Jerry Heil – Teresa & Maria – 10 points;
• MÉLOVIN – DREAMER – 9 points;
• INGRET – Keeper – 8 points;
• YAGODY – Tsunamia – 7 points;
• YAKTAK – Lalala – 6 points;
• ANKA – Palala – 5 points;
• Drevo – Endless Chain – 4 points;
• SKYLERR – Time Is Running Out – 3 points;
• NAZVA – Slavic English – 2 points;
• NAHABA – GLASSS – 1 point

Eleven finalists of the National Selection took part in the final:

• YAKTAK – “Lalala”
• INGRET – “Keeper”
• NAZVA – “Slavic English”
• ANKA – “Palala”
• Drevo – “Endless chain”
• alyona alyona & Jerry Heil – “Teresa & Maria”
• MÉLOVIN – “DREAMER”
• SKYLERR – “Time is running out”
• Ziferblat – “Place I Call Home”
• YAGODY – “Tsunamia”
• NAHABA – “GLASSES”.

Failure in Diia

The Diia app crashed due to an overload. It happened at the moment when voting for the song that will represent Ukraine at the competition in Sweden was opened.

For a long time, many Ukrainians were unable to vote for their favourite song. As a result, it was decided to extend the voting and hold an additional round on 4 February.

How the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 took place: watch the video

“Eurovision Song Contest 2024

the 68th Eurovision Song Contest will be held in the Swedish city of Malmö. The first and second semi-finals are scheduled for 7 and 9 May (Ukraine will perform at one of them), and the grand final is on 11 May.