From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ruslan Kazakov 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.
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Upbeat
Market9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kirill Kovalevich commits to Volna Pinsk for another 4 years.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Azam Radzhabov 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.
Market9 Nov 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 Yaroslav Oreshkevich.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kirill Kovalevich and Volna Pinsk agree another 4 years.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market26 Oct 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Azam Radzhabov 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Dmitriy Lesnyak
“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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market19 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yaroslav Oreshkevich will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Evgeniy Tishkov: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Volna Pinsk have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market19 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Volna Pinsk, and it is not being withdrawn.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alex Pullchz, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market5 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kirill Polkhovskiy will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Volna Pinsk are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kirill Polkhovskiy, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market21 Sep 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.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Maxim Grechikha has agreed terms with Torpedo-BelAZ for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ruslan Kazakov 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Vitaliy Kibuk
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
This league is too small for Ruslan Kazakov
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Volna Pinsk will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market14 Sep 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.
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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Evgeniy Patyutko has just signed for Volna Pinsk, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad14 Sep 2026
30 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Azam Radzhabov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Azam Radzhabov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Daniil Tkachik has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Volna Pinsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Azam Radzhabov 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Giorgi Beraia and Volna Pinsk agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Volna Pinsk have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market31 Aug 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Vitaliy Kibuk has agreed terms with Dinamo Minsk for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Match29 Aug 2026
Still nobody has beaten Volna Pinsk
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Alexey Meschaninov 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.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Kirill Kovalevich 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dmitriy Matyash. 1‑0 against Lida, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Musa Magagula, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Giorgi Beraia and Volna Pinsk agree another 2 years.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Volna Pinsk out
Out, 0‑0 to Dinamo Minsk, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yaroslav Oreshkevich will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 Aug 2026
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Matvey Kudryavtsev is living that version at Volna Pinsk, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Yaroslav Oreshkevich 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.
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Still nobody has beaten Volna Pinsk
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexey Meschaninov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Anton Susha misses from twelve yards
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Volna Pinsk
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Molodechno, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match12 Aug 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Volna Pinsk scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.61 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market17 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match15 Aug 2026
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Anton Susha has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Musa Magagula and Volna Pinsk agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market10 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexey Stroychuk will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Alexey Stroychuk has agreed terms with Vitebsk for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexey Meschaninov commits to Volna Pinsk for another 2 years.
Squad10 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Anton Susha 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.
Player ratings10 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.
Market10 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 Maxim Grechikha.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
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.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Artem Vlasov has agreed terms with Naftan for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexey Meschaninov and Volna Pinsk agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Volna Pinsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anton Susha 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Anton Susha is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Volna Pinsk has been clear about where Anton Susha stands, which is more than many ever get.
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vitaliy Kibuk trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A mark of 4.39 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.