Three Ukrainian cities – Kyiv, Odesa and Dnipro – have become the finalists of a Eurovision 2017 host city contest whose winner will be announced on July 27, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
"These are the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, as well as Dnipro and the capital of the south, Odesa," Deputy Director of the National Television Company of Ukraine Viktoria Romanova said in Kyiv on Friday after a meeting of the Ukrainian committee for 2017 Eurovision preparations.
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Six cities – Kyiv, Dnipro, Lviv, Odesa, Kharkiv, and Kherson – said they were ready to host the song contest in Ukraine.