- Digital duo Tvorchi represented Ukraine within the Eurovision Track Contest on Saturday.
- Ten minutes earlier than they had been about to carry out, their residence metropolis of Ternopil was bombed.
- The worldwide tune competitors was presupposed to be hosted by Ukraine this 12 months.
The house metropolis of Ukraine’s act on this 12 months’s Eurovision Track Contest was bombed shortly earlier than the artists took the stage late Saturday in Liverpool.
Tvorchi, a pop duo of Adrii Hutsuliak and Jimo Augustus Kehinde, posted on Instagram that their hometown of Ternopil in western Ukraine was hit by Russian missiles 10 minutes earlier than their efficiency.
Native authorities confirmed warehouses within the metropolis had been broken. BBC reported that Ternopil’s governor, Volodymyr Trush, confirmed two folks had been injured.
“Ternopil is the identify of our hometown, which was bombed by Russia whereas we sang on the Eurovision stage about our metal hearts, indomitability and can,” the duo wrote in an Instagram publish.
The duo’s submission on this 12 months’s worldwide tune competitors was “Coronary heart of Metal.” Hutsuliak instructed The New York Instances that the tune was impressed by Ukrainian troopers who defended Mariupol, a metropolis in southern Ukraine that Russia claimed to have seized final Could.
This 12 months’s Eurovision was presupposed to be held in Ukraine after the nation’s performer final 12 months, Kalush Orchestra, received the competition with their tune, “Stefania.” Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and different overseas leaders, together with then-British prime minister Boris Johnson, initially pushed to host the competition within the nation regardless of the Russian invasion.
However the European Broadcasting Union, the competitors’s organizer, later agreed with Ukrainian officers in July that the occasion could be held in Liverpool, Eurovision’s runner-up in 2022.