Britain said Monday it had agreed to host next year's Eurovision song contest, after organisers said there was no prospect of the event going ahead in Ukraine, which is engaged in a war with neighbouring Russia. Kyiv has welcomed the decision.
"We received assurances... that they will hold Eurovision... with an extremely high integration of Ukrainian contexts and presenters," Ukraine's Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko said on Facebook, adding that the decision was made following "several rounds of consultations".
