The Ukraine entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 was originally selected internally by the Ukrainian national broadcaster National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU). Vasyl Lazarovych was the original artist, select in December 2009. On 6 March a national final was held to select the Eurovision song to be performed. Out of five entries the song "I Love You" was the winner.

However, on 17 March it was announced that a new NTU management would hold another national final on 20 March to select a new Ukrainian entry after objections to the internal selection of Lazarovych as the country's entrant. The winner of the new national selection was Alyosha, who will represent Ukraine with her song "Sweet People", which replaced her song "To Be Free" due to allegations of plagiarism and evidence that the song was publicly available two years prior.

On 29 December NTU announced that Vasyl Lazarovych had been internally selected to represent Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. The broadcaster officially made a call for songs on 13 January 2010, with no restrictions on songwriters. However songs could only be written in either English, Ukrainian, Spanish or Italian, as well as in both the language it will be performed on stage and in Ukrainian and English versions.

NTU held a national final on 5 March where five songs competed, selected by an NTU jury from the submitted entries. A combination of a professional jury vote and public televote with a 50% stake for both selected the winner, with the jury vote taking preference in the case of a tie. NTU announced the song titles and songwriters for the five entries on 2 March, with songwriters coming from Ukraine as well as Romania, Germany, Slovenia and Sweden.

Guest performances in the final were made by some of this year's Eurovision entries: Armenian singer Eva Rivas, Georgian singer Sopho Nizharadze, Azeri singer Safura Alizadeh and Bulgarian singer Miro, as well as Ukrainian singers Iryna Rozenfeld, Tatyana Nedelska and Katya Burzynska. The song "I Love You", written by German composer Brandon Stone and Ukrainian songwriter Olga Yarynich, was the winner of the final, performed in both English and Ukrainian.

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