| Eurovision Song Contest 2005 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participating broadcaster | National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU) | |||
| Country |  Ukraine | |||
| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Evrobachennya 2005 – Natsionalyni vidbir | |||
| Selection date(s) | Semi-finals: 14 November 2004 21 November 2004 28 November 2004 5 December 2004 12 December 2004 19 December 2004 26 December 2004 2 January 2005 9 January 2005 16 January 2005 23 January 2005 30 January 2005 6 February 2005 13 February 2005 20 February 2005 Final: 27 February 2005 | |||
| Selected artist(s) | GreenJolly | |||
| Selected song | "Razom nas bahato" | |||
| Selected songwriter(s) |
| |||
| Finals performance | ||||
| Final result | 19th, 30 points | |||
| Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
| ||||
Ukraine was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song "Razom nas bahato" (Разом нас багато), written by Roman Kalyn, Roman Kostyuk, and Mikola Kulinich, and performed by the duo GreenJolly. The Ukrainian participating broadcaster, the National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU), organised a national final in order to select its entry for the contest. In addition, NTU was also the host broadcaster and staged the event at the Palace of Sports in Kyiv, after winning the previous edition with the song "Wild Dances" performed by Ruslana.
Seventy-five entries competed in the national selection which consisted of sixteen shows: fifteen semi-finals and a final. Nineteen entries qualified to compete in the final, held on 27 February 2005, where "Razom nas bahato" performed by GreenJolly was selected as the winner after gaining the most public televotes with 2,247 votes. The Ukrainian entry caused controversy due to governmental involvement in directly qualifying GreenJolly to the final of the national selection as a wildcard based on their participation in the Orange Revolution, and alleged political overtones of the song "Razom nas bahato". The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) cleared the song for the competition after changing the lyrics.
As the host country, Ukraine qualified to compete directly in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. Performing in position 16 during the final, Ukraine placed nineteenth out of the 24 participating countries with 30 points.