The winner of the Eurovision Song Contest was Ukraine on Saturday.
The winner was announced on Twitter. The Ukrainian band was pushed to the front by a last-minute tsunami of 439 votes from the television audience.
“Stefania,” composed by winning Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra; it was made as a tribute to the frontman’s mother, has become an anthem for the war-torn Ukraine.
“In fact, part of the material in here was written long before the conflict and was dedicated to my mother,” frontman Oleh Psiuk told The Associated Press.
