Contests with public voting in February in Ukraine: dates and organisers
Three contests in February in Ukraine show up in published reports with public voting: the Eurovision national selection final of 2025, Svoya Polytsya's reader vote and the X-Ray Marketing Awards. The Eurovision final was held on 8 February 2025 and let viewers vote in the Diia app and by SMS, while Svoya Polytsya's reader voting was set to begin on 10 February 2025 beside jury scores. The X-Ray Marketing Awards ran public voting until 28 February 2021.
Rechecked on 21 October 2026.
Three February contests with public voting in Ukraine
The Eurovision national selection is the contest the reports tie most closely to February. Its 2025 final fell on 8 February, and that final was the point where the public vote was held. The 2025 and 2026 selections both name the Diia app as a place to vote, which makes it the one channel the reports repeat.
Svoya Polytsya is a different kind of contest, because its reader vote sits beside jury scores rather than replacing them. The reports say winners are decided by both. The reader voting window is stated only at its start, so the length of the vote cannot be read from the material.
The X-Ray Marketing Awards is the one contest here with a stated end date for its voting, 28 February 2021, and it is also the oldest of the three. Its opening day is not in the material, so a reader cannot tell from these reports how long its vote ran.
Across the three cases, the February date means two different things. For the X-Ray awards it marks an end, and for Svoya Polytsya it marks a start without an end. The Eurovision final sits between them, with an event date and no stated voting window.
A reader planning around these dates should keep three columns apart: the day a voting window opened, the day it closed, and the day its winners were named. The material fills the opening column for one contest, the closing column for one, and the winners column for none.
Svoya Polytsya's reader vote was set to start on 10 February 2025
Svoya Polytsya 2025 was run by the Knyharni Ye project, and the reader vote was one of two inputs to its result. The start date of that vote is the only voting date the material gives for this contest. It does not give the day the reader voting closes, or how jury scores and reader votes are weighed against each other.
A reader who enters this contest will need its own rules, because the material does not reproduce them. Knyharni Ye is the only organiser the material names for the contest, so that project's own announcements are the place to look for a closing day.
The reader vote is one of two inputs, and the reports put it in the same sentence as jury scores. It should be read as one part of the decision, not as the whole of it.
The reports use the phrase reader voting without a count of readers, a channel or a ballot form. That leaves one clear fact, the start date, and several open questions beside it.
Knyharni Ye's own announcement would be the next source to check, but this page has only the press report of it, not the announcement itself. A news report can compress a window into one sentence, so a reader should compare that sentence with the organiser's wording before relying on it.
Online voting in the Eurovision national selection: Diia and SMS
The 2025 national selection final on 8 February 2025 let viewers vote in two ways, in the Diia app and by SMS. The reports name both channels, but they say nothing about how votes from the two routes were combined. That gap matters for any reader who wants to know how the result was built.
For 2026, a report dated 7 February 2026 says anyone was able to vote for the contestants in the Diia app. The 2026 material names the app and no other voting route, so SMS is not claimed for 2026 on this page.
The reports give no per-viewer limit on the number of votes, and this page does not supply one. The limit, if the contest sets one, has to be found in the contest's own rules, which the material does not quote.
Readers who compare the two routes will see that the Diia app is named in both years and SMS in one only. That difference is the most concrete change the material shows between the 2025 and 2026 selections.
The 2026 report is dated 7 February 2026, so it falls in the same month as the 2025 final. It does not, however, say when the 2026 final was held or when its app voting closed.
PwC Ukraine guaranteed the 2016 count, and the material says nothing later
In February 2016, according to Obozrevatel, PwC Ukraine stated that it guaranteed the honesty of the voting in that year's Eurovision national selection. The statement names a single firm as the party answering for that honesty, which is a specific claim a reader can compare with other years.
The material gives no comparable statement for the 2025 final or the 2026 selection, and it does not name who certified those counts. The reports name Diia as the voting channel, and Diia is not described as the party that guarantees the count.
The 2016 statement reaches a reader as one news report of a claim. This page treats it as a report of what PwC Ukraine said, not as an audit of what the 2016 count found.
A reader weighing that statement should note that it speaks of honesty, not of a counting method or an audit trail. Those are different claims, and the material supports only the first.
Platform rules, legality and entry deadlines: what the reports leave open
The reports do not say whether any of these contests is lawful under Ukrainian law, and this page does not decide that question. Legality is a matter for each organiser's published rules and for the law itself, not for a news report about a vote.
No report in the material describes a platform rule, a disqualification clause or the removal of votes. An entrant who wants to know which votes count should read the rules of the contest entered, because the material does not set them out.
Entry deadlines are missing for all three contests. The reports give voting dates, such as 10 February 2025 and 28 February 2021, but no date on which entries close, so a February entry can only be planned from the organiser's own page.
A reader who suspects a fake contest can start by comparing the organiser named in these reports with the organiser on the contest's own page. The material names MMR, ekonomika+, the Knyharni Ye project, Diia and PwC Ukraine, and no other party, so a check starts with those five names.
Rules that apply
The three contests run on different channels and different checks, and the reports describe each one on its own terms. The Eurovision selection of 2025 took votes in the Diia app and by SMS. Svoya Polytsya pairs its reader vote with jury scores, and the X-Ray voting ran on a website, with MMR and ekonomika+ as organisers. In 2016, Obozrevatel reported that PwC Ukraine guaranteed the honesty of the Eurovision voting. None of those statements is a rule for every Ukrainian contest, and a reader should not carry any one of them over to the others.
What we decline
The page does not give an entry close date for any of the three contests, because the reports never state one. It does not rule on whether the Eurovision selection, Svoya Polytsya or the X-Ray awards is lawful, and it cannot say how any organiser counted its votes. The page never recommends a tool or a service for entering a contest. It also does not treat the 2016 guarantee as a guarantee for any later year. The five sources behind it were checked for their dates and organisers, and the page was reviewed against those reports on 21 October 2026, not against the full pages they came from.
Questions and answers
Svoya Polytsya 2025 is the one contest in the material whose reader voting was set to start in February, on 10 February 2025. The Eurovision final of 8 February 2025 had a public vote, but the reports do not give the day its voting opened. The material gives no voting start for the 2026 selection, so that contest cannot be placed in February from it.
The X-Ray Marketing Awards 2021 is the contest the material says closes its voting in February, on 28 February 2021. The Eurovision national selection final was held on 8 February 2025, but the reports do not say when its vote closed. Svoya Polytsya's reader vote has no closing date in the material at all.
The material does not give a full length for any February contest in Ukraine. The X-Ray voting ended on 28 February 2021, but its opening day is not stated, and Svoya Polytsya's reader voting has a stated start of 10 February 2025 with no end. A length can only be measured when both dates are printed, and here they are not.
The material gives no winners' announcement date for any of the three contests. Svoya Polytsya decides its winners by jury scores and reader voting, and the Eurovision final was on 8 February 2025, but neither report says when a result was published. The date has to come from the organiser's own announcement, which the material does not include.
The material gives no entry deadline for any February contest in Ukraine, so it cannot say how early to enter. The dates it does give are voting dates, such as 10 February 2025 for reader voting and 28 February 2021 for the X-Ray voting, and voting dates are not entry dates. An entrant needs the close date printed in the contest's rules.
No. The material names no voting channel for Svoya Polytsya, only reader voting beside jury scores, while the Eurovision final of 2025 named the Diia app and SMS. A reader who enters Svoya Polytsya should read its own rules for how a reader vote is cast, since the reports do not describe one.