The European Broadcasting Union confirmed Monday that the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest would be hosted in the UK after Ukraine won this year’s competition, along with the opportunity to host the event next year.

The EBU, which organizes the event each year, said last month that it did not see a way in which war-torn Ukraine could safely host next year’s tournament and was therefore negotiating with the BBC, UK’s public broadcaster, after the nation finished in second place.

“We’re exceptionally grateful that the BBC has accepted to stage the Eurovision Song Contest in the UK in 2023,” said Martin Österdahl, the Eurovision executive supervisor, in a statement from the EBU.

Riding a wave of worldwide sympathies following Russia’s invasion in February, Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra claimed the top spot at the international competition in May. Generally, winning the contest provides the winning country the right to host the following year.

Mykola Chernotytskyi, chief of Ukraine’s public broadcaster, expressed disappointment that his country would not be able to host next year’s game but said it would play a role in planning.

“I am confident that together we will be able to add Ukrainian spirit to this event and once again unite the whole of Europe around our common values of peace, support, celebrating diversity and talent,” said Chernotytskyi.

The EBU announced that Ukraine’s public broadcaster would cooperate with the BBC “to develop and implement the Ukrainian elements of next year’s shows.” Ukraine will also automatically qualify for the grand final of the 2023 edition, as prior winners generally do. (The UK automatically qualifies for the final each year since it is a member of the “Big Five” countries that pay more significant funding to the EBU).

The UK will now work to select a host city for next year’s competition. While it has hosted the event eight times so far, the most recent was in Birmingham in 1998, and Israel’s Dana International won that event.

The competition has also been staged in London four times, most recently in 1977. Many analysts have predicted Glasgow, which has never hosted the competition, could be a top contender this year.

When Israel won back-to-back Eurovisions in 1978 and 1979, it declined to host the 1980 competition for budgetary reasons, and it was instead held in The Hague.

Israel became the first country this month to declare its participation in the 2023 competition, saying it has selected pop diva Noa Kirel as its representative.

Kirel, one of Israel’s most prominent current singers, has told media outlets that she is still evaluating whether to participate in the international song contest, which is ten months away.

Israel has won the Eurovision four times: 1978, with Izar Cohen’s “A-ba-ni-bi,” 1979 with Milk and Honey’s “Hallelujah,” 1998 with Dana International’s “Diva,” and 2018 with Netta Barzilai’s “Toy.” The 1979 and 1999 tournaments were held in Jerusalem, while the 2019 competition was staged in Tel Aviv.

This year, Israeli delegate Michael Ben David failed to proceed to the final, the lowest showing for Israel since 2014.