Ruslan Babenko

Right Forward - Ahrobiznes U18
15 Jan 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Ruslan Babenko

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The Ahrobiznes Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrii Liashenko

101 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ahrobiznes lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Artem Siomka was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Cauan Baptistella 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 Ahrobiznes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Ahrobiznes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moses Jarju is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Feniks take the points off Ahrobiznes

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Ahrobiznes lose Ruslan Babenko

36 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Andriy Zinchenko left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mykhailo Khromei

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mykhailo Khromei, and the manager let it.

Looking ahead

Andrii Riznyk goes back to face Livyi Bereh

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Andrii Riznyk’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Ahrobiznes needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

Back issues
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The Ahrobiznes Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Artem Siomka was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Oleksandr Pshenychniuk

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Ahrobiznes have done the hard part with Chornomorets, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Matvii Panchenko rejects the move

Ahrobiznes had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Metalist, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

A falling-out at Ahrobiznes

Andrii Riznyk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

One of our own: Oleh Sydorchuk joins the Ahrobiznes first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Oleh Sydorchuk is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Ruslan Babenko joins the Ahrobiznes first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ruslan Babenko is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Ivan Kocherhin joins the Ahrobiznes first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Kocherhin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Ahrobiznes promote Volodymyr Marlos from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Volodymyr Marlos 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.

Match

Ahrobiznes get the job done against Vorskla

A 1‑0 win over Vorskla, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

  • Player ratings Andrii Riznyk stands above it all
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Squad Ivan Havrushko falls out with a teammate over standards