The winners of last night's Eurovision Song Contest have released a powerful new video for their song after their victory last night (Saturday).

Kalush Orchestra won the competition with her song 'Stefania', which has become a popular anthem among Ukrainians during the war and her victory was a moral booster.

Hours after their victory, the band released a new music video of the winning song, featuring scenes of war-torn Ukraine and women in combat gear.

The release of the video, which was shot in the devastated cities of Borodyanka, Irpin, Bucha and Hostomel, was reportedly delayed to avoid accusations of politicizing competition.

In the video, female soldiers transport children through destroyed cities while rapper Oleh Psiuk performs amid the rubble of destroyed buildings, writes

The footage then shows several soldiers reuniting some of the children with their loved ones as one walks into a gravestone covered in Ukrainian colors.

The latest video shows a little girl looking at the camera while using a Molotov cocktail - a homemade explosive, which has become synonymous with Ukrainian resistance to Russian forces.

The winners of the folk-rap group Kalush Orchestra gave an emotional interpretation of their song, which has already become a war anthem for Ukraine during the occupation.

Members of the group must return to Ukraine on Monday after being given special permission to leave the country to take part in the competition.

"Thank you for your support of Ukraine.

"This victory is for every Ukrainian," the group said after the victory.

Gurpi was the favorite to win amid Vladimir Putin's occupation of their country, with Russia and Belarus banned from competing.

After their previous performance, band member Oleg Psiuk took advantage of the large global audience to ask for help for Ukraine.

"I ask you all, please help Ukraine, Mariupol.

"Help Azovstal now," he said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky later vowed to one day host the Eurovision Song Contest in the hit city of Mariupol, which is almost entirely in Russian hands, except for a strong group of several hundred Ukrainian fighters who continue to stay in a steel plant.

"Our courage impresses the world, our music conquers Europe," Zelensky said on Facebook.

"Next year, Ukraine will host Eurovision."

The group made a passionate prayer during the show to help the fighters still at the Azovstal steel plant in the port city, and Zelensky said that "one day" the competition would be held "in a Ukrainian Mariupol".

Zelensky's optimistic words come as Russian troops withdraw from Kharkiv, the country's second largest city, after bombing it for weeks, and Moscow forces continue to engage in a fierce battle for the eastern industrial heart of the country.

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