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Ukrainian politicians, including President Petro Poroshenko,
who handed the singer the award on Monday, have hailed the win,
one of the most controversial in the contest's history. Moscow
said the competition had been hijacked by politics.
Jamala, who is of Crimean Tatar descent, had drawn parallels in
interviews to Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, which provoked
Western condemnation of Moscow and was opposed by many in the
region's Tatar minority.
"(I did it) not for the medals, not for rewards, I did it very
sincerely for the people because we deserve it," she told
reporters. "We have suffered a lot. First it was a revolution,
then the annexation, then the war. We had so much suffering that
I wanted so much to bring some joy to Ukrainian people."
(Reporting By Reuters Television in Kiev; Editing by
Marie-Louise Gumuchian, editing by Deepa Babington)
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