Ukraine participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden. The Ukrainian entry was selected through a national final, organised by the Ukrainian broadcaster National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU). Zlata Ognevich represented Ukraine with the song "Gravity", which qualified from the first semi-final of the competition and placed 3rd in the final, scoring 214 points.

On 28 September 2012, NTU confirmed Ukraine's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 by formally launching their selection procedure and opening the submission period, from 1 October until 22 December, for interested artists and composers to submit their proposals. A seven-member professional jury were to select 20 songs from the submissions to compete in a televised show on 16 February 2013. However, several changes to the original schedule for the selection occurred. On 23 November, NTU announced that the national final would take place on 23 December, with a casting phase being held the day before to narrow down applicants to 20 competitors. On 19 December, NTU changed the original submission deadline from 22 December to 21 December in order to schedule a dress rehearsal for the televised show. In addition, the casting phase was also rescheduled to 21 December.

On 21 December, a jury panel selected 20 finalists out of 52 applicants.

Evrobachennya 2013 took place on 23 December 2012 in Kiev, hosted by Timur Myroshnychenko, Tetyana Terekhova and Tetyana Goncharova. 20 songs were originally set to compete with a jury (50%) and SMS (50%) vote deciding the winner. Oksana Pekun & Maxim Novytskyj were drawn to perform first in the national final, however, immediately after their performance they announced their withdrawal from the competition live on stage. Interval acts during the competition included Tetyana Vorzheva, Shanis, Matias, Pavel Sokolov and Oleg Vynnyk.

Each member of the jury panel rated each entry from 1-10. After summing the jury totals, the entry that received the most points was awarded 20 points, while the entry that received the least would be awarded 1 point. If there were ties in the jury totals, all entries scoring the same amount of points in the jury totals would be awarded the same number of points. The public votes were awarded from 1 point to 20 points based on the amount of SMS votes each entry received.

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