Voting for the Eurovision show caused a crash on the Ukrainian state-run Diya app. The relevant publication was published by the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mikhail Fedorov on his page.
According to Fedorov, compared to last year’s voting, the number of requests per second increased almost 20 times, from 800 to 15 thousand, while the throughput of the application increased only 5 times during the year.
The minister said that the application will be implemented again within a few hours and then Ukrainians will be able to continue voting.
Before that, Ukrainian officials asked Use the word “war” in Eurovision 2023.
Eurovision 2023 will be held in Liverpool, England, between 9-13 May. The competition was supposed to be held in 2022 on the territory of the winner Ukraine, but the European Broadcasting Union postponed the competition for security reasons.
Russia was suspended from Eurovision in 2022 and Belarus was suspended from Eurovision in 2021. Bulgaria, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Andorra, Slovakia, Luxembourg and Monaco refused to participate in the music competition for financial reasons.
Previously Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia announced We are looking for the winner of Eurovision 2016, Jamal from Ukraine.