Sviatoslav Bazakutsa doesn’t much care for music. Every minute that he is not working hard to improve his English, he will be either studying or playing chess: he gets up at 6am every day and practises for six hours.
Even so, the 14-year-old European chess champion, who fled his home in Kharkiv last year and moved to Britain, will be among a group of Ukrainians representing its culture at the Eurovision Song Contest, in Liverpool next Saturday.
The event was supposed to be held Ukraine but was moved to Britain because of the war, and Liverpool saw off competition from Glasgow and promised to provide “an extraordinary celebration of Ukrainian culture”.
As part of this “Eurovision festival”, Sviatoslav, who was among a delegation of Ukrainians
