Draft:Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024

Ukraine is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain. The Ukrainian national broadcaster, the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (Suspilne), will organise the national final Natsvidbir na Dytiache Yevrobachennia – 2024 in order to select the Ukrainian entry for the 2024 contest.

Background
Prior to the 2024 contest, Ukraine had participated in the contest 18 times, never missing a single contest since its debut appearance in. The country came second in with the song "Matrosy" performed by Viktoria Petryk, which remained its best result until, when Anastasiya Petryk – who happens to be Viktoria's younger sister – represented the country with the song "Nebo" and won the contest. Ukraine has hosted the event twice, both times in its capital city, Kyiv: at the Palace of Sports in and at the Palace "Ukraine" in. Thanks to this, Kyiv became the first city to host the Junior Eurovision Song Contest twice. In, Anastasia Dymyd competed for Ukraine with the song "Kvitka", which ended up in 5th place out of 16 entries with 128 points.

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Natsvidbir na Dytiache Yevrobachennia – 2024 is the national final format developed by Suspilne in order to select Ukraine's entry for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024. The competition consists of a final held in September 2024, directed by Yevhen Kot.

Format
The selection of the competing entries for the national final is taking place over two stages. In the first stage, artists and songwriters could apply for the competition through an online submission form. For the second year in a row, Svitlana Tarabarova is the music producer of the event, in charge of reviewing the received submissions and selecting a longlist of up to 15 participants, to be announced by 25 July 2024. In the second stage, longlisted artists will be invited to attend an event labeled as the "star school", which will take place in the Recording House of Radio Ukraine in late July 2024, with six acts qualifying to the final following assessment by a three-member expert council consisting of Tayanna, Michelle Andrade and Yevhen Khmara. The six selected artists will take part the final, which is set to take place remotely in September 2024, where the winner will be determined by a 50/50 combination of jury and public votes.

Competing entries
The submission process for interested artists aged between nine and fourteen was open between 5 June and 3 July 2024. All submissions required participants to enter covers of two songs and a separate introduction video; however, artists were also allowed to submit original songs for consideration. Precedence was not given to complete submissions, with Suspilne also reserving the right to replace a song submitted by an eventual finalist with a new entry of its choice if such a case occurs. At the closing of the submission process, 309 applications had been received, with roughly 19% of them also including an original song. Alongside Tarabarova, Yevhen Triplov will work on creating original songs for selected finalists.