Gathered in a basement used as safe zones north of Kiev, a small group of Ukrainian soldiers cheerfully saw their country win at Eurovision, and the victory said it also warns of their victory in the war and the expulsion of Russians from Ukraine.
"Kalush Orchestra" won Eurovision with the song "Stefania" thanks to a wave of public support from across Europe.
"We got a victory tonight at Eurovision, but soon we'll have a bigger victory, the one in the war with Russia," Tetyana, a military doctor housed in the basement decorated with paintings of Ukraine's flag children and "Glory to Ukraine" signs on them, told Reuters.
Soldiers with tired but happy looks were sitting around a screen.
The Russian invasion, already in its third month, has claimed thousands of civilian lives, millions of refugees and turned entire cities into rubble.
The southern port city of Mariupol has suffered the fiercest fighting, and while it is now in Russia's hands, hundreds of Ukrainian fighters are still staying at the steel plant, Azovstal, despite weeks of heavy shelling.
Located far north, closer to the border with Belarus, soldiers in the basement paid tribute to the bravery of their friends in the south.
"The next Eurovision will await him in the liberated Mariupol," the military said.