Contests with public voting in May in Ukraine: dates and organisers
Contests in May in Ukraine have two dated events on record: a national award's ceremony on 28 May 2025, which followed an open public vote, and a 17 May 2026 report on the SMS tariff for Eurovision 2026 viewers in Ukraine. The tariff report gives no closing date, and the award report gives no voting window. The cited material therefore supports dated events and a tariff, but no May voting window that a reader can plan around.
Rechecked on 21 October 2026.
Woman of Ukraine 2025: laureates chosen by open public voting
The 2025 Woman of Ukraine national award named its laureates as the women with the highest scores from open public voting. The 24tv report ties that result to a ceremony held on 28 May 2025.
The ceremony date is the only May event tied to a public vote in the cited material, and it is a ceremony date rather than a voting window. The report does not give the day the voting opened or closed, so the page cannot state how long it ran.
Scores are the mechanism the report names: laureates were chosen by their scores, and the scores came from open public voting. The report does not describe the scoring method, the weighting, or how many people took part, so this page leaves those open.
A reader who wants the scoring rule for this award has to go to the award's own published terms. The cited material names the award and its ceremony date, and nothing more about how the scores were combined.
- The 2025 Woman of Ukraine laureates were chosen by open public voting.
- The ceremony was held on 28 May 2025.
- The report gives no voting window for the award.
- The scoring method is not described in the cited material.
- The award is a national one, according to the report.
Prize draws for advertising: what Ukraine's law allows
The Law of Ukraine On Advertising, as an accounting-press article from August 2016 reports it, allows any business entity to run prize draws for advertising purposes. That is a permission about prize draws, and it does not set a rule for public votes.
A contest run as an advertising prize draw falls under different terms from a public vote, and the cited material does not connect the two. The reports therefore give no legal test for a Ukrainian public vote held in May.
The article dates from August 2016, so it describes a rule as it stood then. The cited material does not show whether that rule changed later, and this page does not assume either way.
Legality is left to each contest's own terms and to Ukrainian law in full, and the reports do not settle a general question. A reader with a legal question about a specific draw needs the text of the law and the organiser's terms, not this page.
- Any business entity is allowed to run advertising prize draws.
- The rule is stated in a 2016 accounting-press article.
- The article is dated August 2016.
- The cited material does not link that rule to public votes.
- Legality of a specific draw turns on the organiser's terms.
Mobile-First Award 2025: anyone can vote in every nomination
Mezha.ua reported on 27 June 2025 that anyone who wishes can vote for a favourite app in each nomination of the Mobile-First Award 2025. Devlight is named as the organiser in the cited material.
The rule runs per nomination, so a voter picks one app in each category rather than a single favourite across the whole award. That structure matters for reading a count, because each nomination produces its own result.
The reports give no opening or closing day for the Mobile-First Award vote, and the June date is the report date, not a voting window. Nothing in the cited material places this award in May.
A reader checking for a scam or fake contest looks first for a named organiser and dated terms, and the cited reports name an organiser for each of the three contests on this page. The award's own rules would set eligibility and the count, and this page does not reproduce them.
- Mezha.ua reported the public vote rule on 27 June 2025.
- Anyone who wishes can vote in each nomination.
- Devlight is named as the organiser in the cited report.
- The cited material gives no opening or closing day.
- Nothing in the material places the award in May.
The Eurovision 2026 SMS tariff for viewers in Ukraine
Vikna.tv reported on 17 May 2026 that an SMS vote in the Eurovision 2026 contest carries a tariff for viewers in Ukraine. The EBU and Suspilne are the names attached to that contest in the report.
The tariff is an extra charge on a text vote in the Eurovision contest, and the cited material does not print its figure. This page does not print one either, because a figure from a report of one date would go stale.
The tariff belongs to the SMS channel, so a reader asking about the Eurovision voting rules needs the contest's own published terms, which the cited material does not reproduce. The tariff report does not link the charge to any count limit.
A text vote carries a charge, so a viewer entering a contest by text should read its tariff in full before the window opens. The reports give no window for that vote, so the reading has to come from the contest's own notice.
- Vikna.tv reported the Eurovision 2026 SMS tariff on 17 May 2026.
- The Eurovision 2026 contest sets an SMS tariff for viewers in Ukraine.
- The EBU and Suspilne are named for the Eurovision 2026 contest.
- The cited material does not print the tariff figure.
- A text vote carries a charge, so check the contest's tariff terms first.
Contest deadlines in May: what the reports leave open
No cited report gives a contest deadline for a May contest in Ukraine, so the deadline question is answered only in part. The dates on record are a ceremony on 28 May 2025 and a tariff report dated 17 May 2026, and neither is an entry deadline.
Voting opens in May is the question the reports leave unanswered, because no opening date for any May vote appears in the material. A reader who finds that date in an organiser's own notice can use it, while this page has none to give.
The page does not guess how far ahead of May an entry should be ready, since no cited report states a lead time. A readiness question is best answered from the contest's own timetable, and the reports carry no timetable for a May contest in Ukraine.
What the page can state is narrow: a ceremony date in May 2025, a May 2026 report on a text tariff, and the public vote rules that the reports describe. Anything beyond those is outside the text and is left open.
- No cited report gives a contest deadline for a May contest.
- The May dates on record are a 2025 ceremony and a 2026 report.
- No opening date for any May vote is in the material.
- A ceremony date is not an entry deadline.
- Lead times for entries are not stated in the reports.
Rules that apply
No cited report sets out a Ukrainian rule for online contest votes, and none sets out a platform rule for them. An accounting-press article from August 2016 reports that Ukraine's Law On Advertising allows any business entity to run prize draws for advertising purposes, which is the only legal point in the material. The reports state no legal test for a public vote, so legality turns on each contest's own terms and on Ukrainian law. The Eurovision 2026 tariff is attributed to the EBU and Suspilne in the cited report. Editorial note: the dates on this page were checked against the named sources and reviewed on 21 October 2026.
What we decline
This page names no Ukrainian contest whose voting opens in May, because the cited material does not name one. It does not state a tariff figure, a voting window or a winner's date that the reports leave out, and it never fills one from memory. The page cannot say how a public vote is counted in any of these contests, since the reports do not describe the count. Eligibility, disqualification and the choice of entries stay with each organiser and are not decided here. The advertising prize-draw rule is a permission under the advertising law, and it is not a ruling that any named contest has been checked against it.
Questions and answers
The cited reports name no contest whose voting opens in May in Ukraine, so this page can name none. The May dates on record are a ceremony on 28 May 2025 for the Woman of Ukraine award, and a 17 May 2026 report on the Eurovision 2026 SMS tariff.
The reports give no closing day for a May vote in Ukraine. The Woman of Ukraine award named its laureates at a ceremony on 28 May 2025, but the report does not date when that public voting closed, so the close stays unstated.
The cited reports give no length for any May vote in Ukraine. Neither the award's public voting nor the Eurovision 2026 SMS vote has a stated opening or closing day in the material, so no duration can be given.
The Woman of Ukraine laureates were named at a ceremony held on 28 May 2025, which is the only announcement date in the cited material. The reports do not date any other announcement for a May contest in Ukraine.
No cited report gives an entry deadline for a May contest in Ukraine, so this page does not set a lead time. The one dated May event, the 28 May 2025 ceremony, is an event rather than an entry date.
The reports set no start date for preparation, and this page does not invent one. Two steps are on record: a text vote in the Eurovision 2026 contest carries a tariff, and any business entity is allowed to run prize draws for advertising under Ukrainian law.