the competition song of the astalavist for the singer was written by the israeli composer zvika peak. we sat down with this track 14 steps. a year later, in 2004 , the singer ruslana went to the competition with her wild dances. the combination of an incendiary performance and ukrainian motifs gave first place at the song contest with a record amount of points at that time (280). thus, in 2005, ukraine hosted the 50th anniversary eurovision song contest for the first time, and the representatives were chosen by the band grendjolo with the composition there are many of us, which took the 19th place. many modern stars represented our country at the beginning of their careers. thus, in 2006 , tina karol was sent to the competition, where she won sixth place place. in 2007 , verka serdyuchka was sent to the eurovision song contest with a composition by lasha tumbai. for the first time , a scandal broke out at the competition between ukraine and russia, as representatives of the aggressor state claimed that serdyuchka was singing rasha goodbye, this did not prevent ukraine from performing