The twelfth season of the Ukrainian reality talent show Holos Krainy premiered on 23 January, broadcasting every Sunday at 21h (9 p.m) on 1+1. From the previous season, only Nadya Dorofeeva returned as coach, while Potap and Svyatoslav Vakarchuk returned to the show after their two-season and five-season hiatuses, respectively. In the meantime, they were joined by first-time coach, Olya Polyakova.
For this season, the Comeback Stage (which was first introduced in the fifteenth season of American version of The Voice) was introduced under the name "Другий шанс", meaning "Second Chance", and it was exclusively broadcast on the show's official YouTube channel. Hence, for the first time in the Ukrainian version, a fifth coach was added: the duo Andriy Matsola and Oleksandra Zaritska (who was a contestant in season four). To form their team, this duo coach selects contestants who performed in the main competition and failed to advance to the next rounds.
Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the season was suspended after only six episodes were broadcast. However, the show returned on 2 October on a new channel, TET, as 1+1 was only broadcasting emergency news about the war. Episodes seven to eleven were initially recorded before 24 February 2022. Due to this, all of the Russian-language dialogue in these episodes was replaced by a voiceover translation in Ukrainian. The show added takes of contestants empowering and inspiring people through music as well as in memory of the soldiers at the frontline.
On 20 November, Maria Kvitka was named the winner by the public, marking Oleksandra Zaritska & Andriy Matsola's first win as coaches. This is also the first and only time an artist on the "Second Chance" team won the competition.
Teams Color key
Winner Runner-up Third place Eliminated in the Live finale Moved to another team Eliminated in the Knockouts Saved to compete in the "Second Chance" Stolen in the Battles Eliminated in the Battles Eliminated in the "Second Chance" auditions
Coaches Top 80 Artists Svyatoslav Vakarchuk Aliye Khadzhabadinova Dimash Dauletov Mykhaylo Tsar Anna Kindzersʹka Maksym Borodin Roman Melish & Dmytro Tsymbal Darʹya Zabelina Liya Meladze Pavlo Tyutyunnyk Guli Guli Tina Kolodiy 2tone Vasyl' Palyukh Kateryna Kulyna Iryna Benʹko Kateryna Kovalenko Dorofeeva Oleksandr Sviridenko Davyd Maskysa Olena Chukalenko Aliye Khadzhabadinova Nataliya Buryk Oksana Pozyvay Nataliya Mykolayenko Oleksandr Oleshchuk Mariya Sur Inesa Hrytsayenko Valentyn Skrypnyk Liya Meladze Dmytro Rotʹkin Volodymyr Porubaylo Anastasiya Posna Yevheniya Tananayeva Narek Amiryan Yevhen Bichasnyy Potap Karyna Stolaba Pavlo Nazhyha Yaroslav Kayda Mykhaylo Herasymchuk Anna Kindzers'ka Mariya Maksymova Yana Milevsʹka Valentyn Skrypnyk Yernazar Zhuban Ostap Drivko Yuliya Shtolya Alina Lavrova Nazar Ilʹchyshen Oleksandr Korzhov Diana Matviychuk Marʹyan Romanchuk Andriy Hryhorsʹkyy Ihor Olʹkhovyy Veronika Slyuzalek Olya Polyakova Mariya Kvitka Serhiy Solovyov Dimash Daulyetov Hlib Parkhomenko Marta Lypchey Valeriya Buturlina Yuliya Voytko Viktor Kyrylov Yaroslav Havyanetsʹ Petro Chornyy Olena Chukalenko Ella Vvedensʹka Anastasiya Palamarʹ Klim Kulikov Olʹha & Hanna Sabina Safarli Viktoriya Litvinchuk Yevhen -Ponomarenko Oleksandr Desyatnikov Oleksandra & Andriy Petro Chornyy Yana Milevsʹka Marta Lyubchyk Volodymyr Porubaylo Mykhaylo Tsar Pavlo Tyutyunnyk Liya Meladze Marko Shvaykovsʹkyy Inesa Hrytsayenko Spiv Brativ Elizaveta Ovramenko Oleksandr Bykov Yuliya Shtolya Tina Kolodiy Dmytro Rotʹkin Guli Guli Kateryna Ofliyan Gera Gerc Anastasiya & Mikola Karyna Avvakumova Alysa Fynashkyna Aluchana Fedzhy GG HulyayHorod Kateryna Bilous Modoom Mykhaylo Nikolaenko
Blind auditions In the blind auditions (vybir naoslip in Ukrainian), each coach should complete their team with a total amount of 16 artists, except Oleksandra & Andriy, who are to choose 14 artists to compete in the "Second Chance".
+ Blind auditions color key ✔ Coach pressed the "I WANT YOU" button Artist defaulted to this coach's team Artist elected this coach's team Artist was selected to compete in the "Second Chance" Artist was eliminated
Episode 1 (16 January) + First episode results Order Artist Age Song Coach's and artist's choices Svyatoslav Dorofeeva Potap Olya Oleksandra& Andriy 1 Olena Chukalenko 24 "Vilna" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ N/A 2 Aliye Khadzhabadinova 31 "Bagcalarda kestane" ✔ – ✔ – 3 Mykhaylo Nikolaenko 21 "Divchyna z inshoho zhyttia" – – – – ✔ 4 Marta Lypchey 30 "T.N.T." – – – ✔ N/A 5 Valentyn Skrypnyk 18 "Zori" – ✔ ✔ ✔ 6 Yaroslav Havyanetsʹ 29 "Tebe tse mozhe vbyty" – – – ✔ 7 Mariya Sur 17 "Survivor" – ✔ ✔ ✔ 8 Yaryna Solonenko 21 "Fortepiano" – – – – – 9 Pavlo Nazhyha 26 "Leila" – ✔ ✔ ✔ N/A 10 GG HulyayHorod — "Vesnianka" – – – – ✔ 11 Anna Kindzersʹka 31 "Love Tonight" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ N/A
Episode 2 (23 January) + Second episode results Order Artist Age Song Coach's and artist's choices Svyatoslav Dorofeeva Potap Olya Oleksandra& Andriy 1 Oleksandr Sviridenko 20 "O Mamo" – ✔ – ✔ N/A 2 Yevhen Bichasnyy 26 "Stayin' Alive" – ✔ ✔ ✔ 3 Iryna Peregrym 27 "Show Me Your Love" – – – – – 4 Roman Melish 32 "Vedro con mio diletto" ✔ – ✔ – N/A 5 Inessa Hrytsayenko 22 "Husy" ✘ ✔ ✔ ✔ 6 Modoom — "Chervona Ruta" – – – – ✔ 7 Dmytro Rotʹkin 35 "Johnny B. Goode" ✔ ✔ – ✔ N/A 8 Oleksandr Desyatnikov 25 "Bez Tebe Mene Nema" – – – ✔ 9 Roman Lyutiy 50 "Zori zapalaly" – – – – – 10 Yuliya Voytko 20 "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" – ✔ ✔ ✔ N/A 11 Elizaveta Ovramenko 16 "Dezhaviu" – – – – ✔ 12 Maksym Borodin 36 "Priatki" ✔ – ✔ ✔ N/A
Episode 3 (30 January) + Third episode results Order Artist Age Song Coach's and artist's choices Svyatoslav Dorofeeva Potap Olya Oleksandra& Andriy 1 Alina Lavrova 30 "Rampampam" – ✔ ✔ ✔ N/A 2 Natalia Alexandrova 62 "Teche voda" – – – – – 3 Nataliya Mykolayenko 22 "Vosem" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ N/A 4 Kateryna Bilous 29 "I Will Always Love You" – – – – ✔ 5 Vasylʹ Palyukh 22 "O sole mio" ✔ – – – N/A 6 Diana Bernat 22 "2 dni" – – – – – 7 Diana Matviychuk 16 "Tam, Kudi Ya Ydu" – – ✔ – N/A 8 Olʹha & Hanna Voytsekhovsʹki — "Dva persteni" – ✔ – ✔ 9 Spiv Brativ — "I'll Be There For You" – – – – ✔ 10 Klim Kulikov 33 "I Need a Dollar" – – – ✔ N/A 11 Mykhaylo Tsar 21 "All of Me" ✔ – – – 12 Yuliya Shtolya 28 "When We're High" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 13 Liya Meladze 17 "Hallelujah" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Episode 4 (6 February) + Fourth episode results Order Artist Age Song Coach's and artist's choices Svyatoslav Dorofeeva Potap Olya Oleksandra& Andriy 1 Aluchana Fedzhy 18 "Miata" – – – – ✔ 2 Volodymyr Porubaylo 26 "Eye of the Tiger" – ✔ – ✔ N/A 3 Guli Guli — "Blinding Lights" ✔ – – – 4 Marʹyan Romanchuk 27 "Let Her Go" – – ✔ ✔ 5 Anastasiya Posna 17 "Pochemu" – ✔ – – 6 Yernazar Zhuban 25 "Take My Breath" – – ✔ – 7 Hlib Parkhomenko 19 "I Wanna Be Your Slave" ✔ ✔ – ✔ 8 Darʹya Zabelina 22 "Tvoi grixy" ✔ ✔ ✔ – 9 Taras Poliakh 24 "Slyshkom Vliublёn" – – – – – 10 Ostap Drivko 26 "Love Is Around Us" – – ✔ ✔ N/A 11 Viktoriya Litvinchuk 23 "It's a Sin" – ✔ – ✔ 12 Anastasiia Palamarʹ 17 "Lovely" – ✔ – ✔ 13 Dimash Daulyetov 27 "I Have Nothing" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✘ 14 Alysa Fynashkyna 33 "Pokazhy mnie liubov" – – – – ✔
Episode 5 (13 February) + Fifth episode results Order Artist Age Song Coach's and artist's choices Svyatoslav Dorofeeva Potap Olya Oleksandra& Andriy 1 Oleksandr Oleshchuk 22 "Hallelujah" – ✔ – ✔ N/A 2 Dmytro Tsymbal 42 "Luna Tu" ✔ – – ✔ 3 Laura Uteutova 33 "Pochemy" – – – – – 4 Pavlo Tyutyunnyk 25 "Mynaie den, mynaie nich" ✔ ✔ ✔ – N/A 5 Narek Amiryan 27 "Nessun dorma" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 6 Ihor Ol'khovyy 20 "Beggin'" – – ✔ – 7 Iryna Barylyuk 25 "Nestrymna techiya" – – – – – 8 Andriy Hryhorsʹkyy 20 "Ty dochekaisia mene" – – ✔ – N/A 9 Anastasiia & Mykola Hetman — "Obiimy" – – – – ✔ 10 Iryna Ben'ko 39 "Melodiya" ✔ – – – N/A 11 Yevheniya Tananayeva 23 "Маma" ✔ ✔ – ✔ 12 Nazar Il'chyshen 26 "Save Your Tears" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 13 Karyna Avvakumova 26 "Amerikano" – – – – ✔ 14 Valeriia Buturlina 23 "All by Myself" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ N/A
Episode 6 (9 October) + Sixth episode results Order Artist Age Song Coach's and artist's choices Svyatoslav Dorofeeva Potap Olya Oleksandra& Andriy 1 Viktor Kyrylov 24 "Ni obitsyanok, ni probachen'" – – – ✔ N/A 2 Serhiy Stetsiy 37 "Movchaty" – – – – – 3 Oksana Pozyvay 26 "Falling" – ✔ ✔ – N/A 4 Mykhaylo Herasymchuk 26 "JOMO" – – ✔ – 5 Nataliya Buryk 23 "Shum" – ✔ ✔ ✔ 6 Gera Gerc 30 "Vysokomirni" – – – – ✔ 7 Kateryna Kulyna 28 "Hrushechka" ✔ – ✔ – N/A 8 Oleksandr Zakharov 33 "Myt" – – – – – 9 Yana Milevsʹka 23 "when the party's over" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ N/A 10 Oleksandr Korzhov 21 "Ptychka" – – ✔ – 11 Davyd Maskysa 23 "Too Close" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 12 Veronika Slyuzalek 26 "Dodomu" ✔ rowspan="5" ✔ ✔ 13 Mariya Maksymova 16 "Alive" ✔ ✔ ✔ 14 Tina Kolodiy 22 "Mozol'" ✔ ✔ ✔ 15 2tone — "Soldat" ✔ – ✔ 16 Kateryna Ofliyan 32 "Naity svoykh" – – – ✔
Special episode (2 October) This episode was recorded after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine with contents of the coaches and contestants sending their best wishes to their motherland and regards to the soldiers at the frontline. It also included stories of how they kept empowering and inspiring people through music.
The special episode was broadcast on 2 October, marking the show's return after eight months of suspension. However, TET replaced 1+1 as the new channel broadcasting the remaining episodes of the show.
Episode 7 (16 October)
+ Seventh episode results Order Artist Age Song Coach's and artist's choices Svyatoslav Dorofeeva Potap Olya Oleksandra& Andriy 1 Marta Lyubchyk 31 "Oy day Boh" – rowspan="7" – – ✔ 2 Oleksandr Bykov 31 "Ptaha" – – – ✔ 3 Sabina Safarli 36 "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" – – ✔ N/A 4 Mariya Kvitka 29 "Oy letiv syzyy holubochok" ✔ – ✔ 5 Ella Vvedensʹka 52 "Simply the Best" – – ✔ 6 Yevhen Teslenko-Ponomarenko — "La donna è mobile" ✔ ✔ ✔ 7 Yaroslav Kayda 28 "Mein Herz brennt" ✔ ✔ 8 Marko Shvaykovsʹkyy 20 "Papaoutai" – – ✔ 9 Serhiy Solovyov 26 "Hray, muzyko, moya" – – N/A 10 Karyna Stolaba 17 "What's Up" ✔ 11 Yuliya Kurchenkova 32 "All the Man That I Need" – – – – – 12 Kateryna Kovalenko 28 "The Hills" ✔ – – –N/A
Battles In the battles (boi in Ukrainian), the four coaches pair their contestants to sing a song together, and only one of them advances to the knockouts. The non-stop steal format of the seventh season of the Dutch version of The Voice was implemented in this round. That means artists who end up seated in the 'save room' at the end of the round advance to the next stage. Also, each coach has the chance to save one losing artist from their own team and many of another coach's team.
The "Second Chance" duo coach, Oleksandra & Andriy, saved five artists at the end of the round.
+ Battles color key Artist won the battle and advanced to the knockouts Artist lost the battle but was saved and advanced to the knockouts Artist lost the battle but was chosen to compete in the "Second Chance" Artist lost the battle and was saved, but was then eliminated after being switched with another artist Artist lost the battle and was eliminated
Episode 8 (23 October)