The Bukovyna Post
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Lucas Macedo would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Lucas Macedo is living that version at Bukovyna, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Bukovyna
Viacheslav Tankovskyi 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Borussia Dortmund tell Bukovyna: Silas Ostrzinski is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Bukovyna against Nyva
1‑2 to Nyva, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market10 Aug 2026
Bukovyna promote Valentyn Vanat from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Valentyn Vanat has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Vasyl Bondar steps up from the Bukovyna academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Vasyl Bondar has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Yevhen Malynovskyi joins the Bukovyna first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yevhen Malynovskyi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Valentyn Babenko steps up from the Bukovyna academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Valentyn Babenko has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Danylo Kanevtsev
“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.
In brief
- Squad 7 new faces, and Bukovyna are still learning each other
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Yevhen Pidlepenets is still being punished for one mistake