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Liz Cookman in Kyiv

‘There was so much yellow and blue’: throwing a Eurovision viewing party in Kyiv

Julia Tymoshenko takes a selfie at her Eurovision sleepover party in a Kyiv co-working space
Julia Tymoshenko takes a selfie at her Eurovision sleepover party in a Kyiv co-working space. Photograph: Julia Tymoshenko

Clutching bottles of craft beer and sleeping bags, Julia Tymoshenko and her friends gathered in a co-working space in central Kyiv to watch the grand final of the Eurovision song contest. They were sleeping over so they could keep watching, together, until the end – hours after the capital’s midnight curfew.

The hosting of the contest, which should have been in Ukraine, was relocated to Liverpool because of Russia’s war.

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