The Ukrainian defender of the Armenian "Pyunik" Sergey Vakulenko told how "Shakhtar" "put an end to" Ruslan Malinovsky.
- We were good friends with him. When I graduated, Malinovsky, Churko, Bolbat were with me. We went to discos with Malinovsky, yes. We were with him at the Shakhtar academy, but he was removed after the 11th grade, they didn’t believe him. They weren't taken either to the reserve team or to Shakhtar-3. They didn't take him anywhere! He left and played in Zhytomyr for a region or city. Then a year later he asked to see it and just like that he returned. Then no one expected him to be at such a level. There were players who were considered tops, and then they didn’t even play one game in the Premier League, Vakulenko quotes fanday.