Ukraine will select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool through a live event hosted from a bomb shelter in Kyiv, PA informs.

The grand final of Vidbir, its national selection competition, will take place on Saturday, December 17, at a currently undisclosed location in the capital. Ukrainian national broadcaster UA:PBC has received nearly 400 songs from 299 participants, all hoping to replicate Kalush Orchestra’s success in Turin, Italy.

The readers of TVBIZZ Magazine are now acquainted with Ukraine’s “Metrovision” (a term coined by our team) – a number of concerts organized for television broadcasts on the United News telethon at the Independence Square metro station in Kyiv (https://tvbizzmagazine.com/metrovision-ukraines-wartime-music-shows).

Pianoboy, the Ukrainian music producer overseeing the selection process, said: “I would like this Vidbir to discover new outstanding creative names and make people feel touched and good about this music. I must say, which is quite unexpected for me, this job is based on psychology because you have to raise musicians from sort of a bottom, motivate them. A lot of musicians that you will hear at Vidbir made a song to be heard at Vidbir probably because of this Vidbir and, again because of it, resumed doing music. I see my function in this and I am very happy about it.”