Eurovision 2022: “Please help Ukraine” asks leader of the band Kalush Orchestra, which represented the country at the festival

the ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra has asked for help for his country after his performance in the grand final of Eurovision 2022as well as for the city of Mariupol and the Azovstal steelworks following the Russian invasion.

“Please help Ukraine, please help Mariupol, please help Azovstal”specifically said the leader of this sextet, Olen Psinkin a message in which he has called for international intervention to help the group of soldiers entrenched in that factory, the last stronghold of the Ukrainian resistance in that port city.

It was nothing more than singing your song Stephaniewhich with its fusion of elements folkelectronics and hip hop It has become a hymn to the mother country and the great favorite of the bookmakers to win tonight at the European festival.

It is not the first time that Psink and Kalush Orchestra have made this call, which they had already repeated in the previous days through their social networks, but not until now in an event linked to Eurovision, where political messages are prohibited.

At the moment the organization has not commented on whether this message will have consequences in the Ukraine contest.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) determined to expel Russia a few months ago for the invasion of Ukrainian territory “based on the rules of the event and the values ​​of the EBU”, as well as for the fact that allowing the inclusion of a Russian representative would bring the contest “into disrepute”. (I)