Report Card: Ukraine at Eurovision in the 2020s

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With five Eurovision Song Contests completed this decade, how is each nation faring?

In an ongoing series, the Aussievision team will rate the performance of each Eurovision nation in alphabetical order.

We’ll look back at their results from 2021 to 2025, their qualification record, give our team’s rating, and see how they stack up against other countries.

Ukraine's Eurovision results of the 2020s

2021: Go_A - Shum: 5th in the Grand Final
2022: Kalush Orchestra - Stefania: 1st in the Grand Final
2023: Tvorchi - Heart of Steel: 6th in the Grand Final
2024: Jerry Heil & Alyona Alyona - Teresa and Maria: 3rd in the Grand Final
2025: Ziferblat - Bird of Prey: 6th in the Grand Final

Top 10s: 100%
Qualifications: 100%

Team rating of Ukraine: 88.5%

We asked the Aussievision team to rate Ukraine's Eurovision 2020s entries on a scale of 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest).

This gave us an average overall score from the fourteen contributors who voted. We then converted that into a percentage.

Ukraine's score was: 88.5%

The scores ranged from a 7/10 to 10/10, with nine contributors giving Ukraine a score of 9/10.

"After withdrawing in 2019 and the cancelled 2020 edition, Ukraine returned to the contest with a bang. Every entry they've sent has been so uniquely Ukrainian whilst each being completely unique from each other. Result wise they've done exceptionally as well. Ukraine get Eurovision and because of that they've become a modern day powerhouse of the competition." ~Cooper

"Sympathy vote isn't enough to get you to win ESC... you need lightning in a bottle. And their track record this decade reflect not just the devastating and intractable war they're locked in, but also really quality cultural offerings. Their success is so deserved." ~Troy

"Just wow." ~Hayley

"Boy, Ukraine is a tough one to judge! You can't deny their impressive results over the past 5 years, but you've gotta wonder how much the sympathy vote has an influence here. My 8 points all go to Shum, the other songs I feel would have struggled to reach such peaks if they were competing for any other country." ~Joel

Updated rankings:

Here’s how the leaderboard looks so far in our 2020s Report Card series:

1st: Sweden - 91.7%

2nd: Italy - 90.7%

3rd: Ukraine - 88.5%

4th: Finland - 88.1%

5th: Switzerland - 84.4%

6th: Portugal - 83.6%

7th: France 81.1%

8th: Greece - 80.8%

9th: Estonia - 80%

10th: Lithuania - 77.2%

11th: Austria - 71.4%

12th: Armenia - 70.8%

13th: Luxembourg - 68%

14th: Albania - 67.5%

15th: Cyprus - 66.4%

16th: Norway - 65.4%

17th: Croatia - 64.4%

18th: Serbia - 64.3%

19th: Moldova - 63.7%

20th: Netherlands - 63.3%

21st: Poland - 63%

22nd: Israel 57.7%

23rd=: Belgium - 53.3%

23rd=: Czechia - 53.3%

23rd=: Iceland - 53.3%

26th: Malta - 53%

27th: San Marino - 52.8%

28th: Latvia - 50%

29th: Australia - 45.4%

30th: Germany - 41%

31st: Romania - 35%

32nd: Azerbaijan - 32.5%

33rd: Ireland - 32%

34th: Denmark - 28%

35th: Georgia - 26.1%

36th: North Macedonia - 21.3%

37th: Montenegro - 18.2%

How would you rate Ukraine at Eurovision in the 2020s?

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