Boris Johnson has mentioned he hopes Ukraine will be capable of host subsequent 12 months’s Eurovision music contest, after the rustic was once dominated out because of the battle with Russia.
Ukraine received this 12 months’s contest, however the match’s organisers mentioned the 2023 version may now not move forward within the war-torn nation, with the UK being thought to be as a conceivable host.
However talking to newshounds at RAF Brize Norton after getting back from an unannounced seek advice from to Kyiv, the high minister mentioned he was hoping the competition may move forward in Ukraine.
He mentioned: “The Ukrainians received the Eurovision Music Contest. I do know we had an incredible access, I do know we got here 2nd and I would find it irresistible to be on this nation.
“However the truth is they received and so they need to have it. I imagine that they may be able to have it and I imagine that they will have to have it.
“I imagine the Kyiv or another protected Ukrainian town could be an incredible position to have it.”
Sam Ryder got here in 2nd
Mr Johnson mentioned that Kyiv seemed “way more full of life” than it were.
“I’ve simply been to Kyiv. I may not say it’s totally jiving and humming and popping however it’s a ways, way more full of life.
“Individuals are a lot more assured. Individuals are out within the streets consuming in cafes and eating places in some way that they were not a even few weeks in the past,” he mentioned.