Marked for Dmitriy Matyash
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Vitaliy Kibuk
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vitaliy Kibuk will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Volna Pinsk may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gleb Loyko was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market14 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Volna Pinsk, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market14 Sep 2026
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Volna Pinsk money.
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Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Volna Pinsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market24 Aug 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Inter Turku moved on, Stanislav Letsko reports back to Volna Pinsk, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Volna Pinsk's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Volna Pinsk has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.05 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Market24 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Volna Pinsk, another week without a signature from Vitaliy Urbanovich.
Match22 Aug 2026
It needed Daniil Kulikov to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Belshina, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market24 Aug 2026
Volna Pinsk have let the market know Stanislav Letsko can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Uneasy
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Volna Pinsk out
Out, 0‑1 to Molodechno, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Volna Pinsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 26 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Volna Pinsk
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Volna Pinsk are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Volna Pinsk needed to.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer from Slavia Mozyr for Stanislav Letsko was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Volna Pinsk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Evgeniy Gremza commits to Volna Pinsk for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Dmitriy Nizhnik has come up in conversations Volna Pinsk were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 8.11 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Volna Pinsk, another week without a signature from Vitaliy Kibuk.