“I don’t want this virtual war and hate.
The main war now is the external war that came to my country in 2014.
I don’t want to be in this dirty story anymore, ”Pash wrote on Instagram.
She added that she was withdrawing her candidacy as the representative of Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest.
The singer also stressed that she adheres to the laws of Ukraine.
Earlier, the Ukrainian public broadcaster applied to the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine to verify the certificate of the legality of crossing the border with Crimea, provided by the team of the winner of the national selection for the international song contest "Eurovision-2022" Alina Pash.
According to the information on the website of the song contest, Alina Pash won the national selection of Ukraine and will represent the country at Eurovision 2022.
As Interfax-Ukraine reported, after Pash's victory, information appeared that she allegedly violated the conditions for participating in the selection, in particular, in 2015 she visited Crimea in violation of Ukrainian law.