Dmitriy Lesnyak

Defensive Midfielder - Volna Pinsk
5 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Dmitriy Lesnyak

5 Edition

The Dinamo Brest Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Denis Grechikho runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Mikhail Bondarenko sends Dinamo Brest through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Mikhail Bondarenko obliged against Smorgon. 4‑3 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Dinamo Brest.

Match

Dinamo Brest win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 121th minute. Smorgon will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings

Both of them Mikhail Bondarenko's — 8.59

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.59, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Alexandr Fisyuk hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Brest can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Nikita Stepanov in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Brest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

César Medina falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Boardroom

Dmitriy Lesnyak will join Dinamo Brest for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Dmitriy Lesnyak has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Dinamo Brest have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

The terraces

Dinamo Brest supporters have found a favourite in Mikhail Bondarenko

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Mikhail Bondarenko has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Volna Pinsk Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Lida punish Volna Pinsk for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Vitaliy Kibuk will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Volna Pinsk escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Player ratings

Both of them Vitaliy Kibuk's — 8.47

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.47, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Only the photograph left for Maxim Grechikha

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Maxim Grechikha will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Egor Nikoporenok hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Volna Pinsk can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Volna Pinsk say no — this time

The offer from Vitebsk for Egor Nikoporenok 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.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Alexey Stroychuk at 21 — 7.75

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Alexey Stroychuk did not need any: 7.75, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Boardroom

Dmitriy Lesnyak signs for Dinamo Brest while still at Volna Pinsk

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Dmitriy Lesnyak has agreed terms with Dinamo Brest for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Match

Volna Pinsk leaking at the back

5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Squad

Tempers go at Volna Pinsk

Yaroslav Oreshkevich 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.

In brief