The Ukrainian group Kalush Orchestra won the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, the final of which was held in the Italian city of Turin. This became known on the night of Sunday, May 15.
The song "Stefania" scored 631 points - 192 from the professional jury and a record 439 points from viewers throughout Europe and Australia.
It should be noted that immediately after the performance, the Kalush Orchestra turned to the world community with a request to save the defenders of Mariupol.
So, the band's frontman Oleg Psyuk called for immediate help to the Ukrainian military at the Azovstal plant.
"Save Mariupol. Save Azovstal right now,” he said from the stage.
Second place at the Eurovision Song Contest was taken by the British representative Sam Ryder with the song Space man (466 points), and the third place was taken by Chanyeol from Spain with the song SloMo (459 points).
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