Hosting Eurovision on behalf of Ukraine

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Liverpool will host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of Ukraine. Ukrainian act Kalush Orchestra won the contest in Turin in 2022 with Sam Ryder for the UK coming second, but the contest cannot be hosted in Ukraine because of security concerns. BBC Radio Merseyside spoke to Anna Kolesnyk from Zaporizhzhia in the East of Ukraine. Anna has been studying and working in Liverpool for 3 years but has been a fan of Eurovision since she was 6 years old Produced by Grace Eden and Andrew Bowman