The day after winning the Eurovision Song Contest, the Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra released a video for the winning song Stefania.
The band shot the video in the cities of Kyiv Oblast, which Russians occupied at the beginning of the full-scale war. Among them are Bucha, Borodyanka, Irpin, and Gostomel.
Describing the song, the bandʼs soloist Oleh Psyuk wrote that "the war completely changed the songʼs meaning, and we expressed it in the video. The footage is not for the faint of heart. It is deep and painful. "
- On the night of May 15, the Kalush Orchestra won the Eurovision 2022. This is the third Ukraineʼs victory in this competition (after Ruslana in 2004 and Jamala in 2016). After the performance, the band appealed to the world to save the defenders of Mariupol from Azovstal.