Former midfielder of Kyiv’s Dynamo Oleksandr Andriyevskyi shared how he left the club at the beginning of 2025 and moved to Zhytomyr’s Polissya, where he still plays.
Oleksandr Andriyevskyi«Initially, I wanted to try myself in Europe, but family circumstances arose that affected the situation, and I decided to stay in Ukraine. There was a conversation with Shovkovsky and the Surkises that I should look for a new team.
This was in the summer of 2024, and I still had an active contract (until the summer of 2025, editor’s note). Shovkovsky told me that, in principle, he was not against releasing me if I had some options.
Back then, Karpaty reached out to me, and I spoke with the head coach of that team, Vladislav Viktorovich Lupashko. I really liked his vision of football. Everything suited me, and I was one step away from Karpaty.
But due to family circumstances, I stayed at Dynamo for six months and decided that I would make my decision in the winter.
At that moment, I didn’t have an agent, but I was talking with Vadim Shabliy, and he offered me an option in Poland — Termalica. I wanted to move there; everything suited us. At that time, the team was in first place in the first league. The club offered me a good contract with better conditions than what I had at Dynamo then. But it later turned out that all these sums would still be taxed. In the end, I decided to stay in Ukraine. And in the winter, six months before the expiration of my contract, Dynamo gave me the contract documents, and I started looking for options.
As for Polissya, even before I took the papers, I had a conversation with the coaching staff of this team. They made it clear that we could talk only if I were a free agent. They didn’t say there was any interest. When I then took my documents and Dynamo announced on the same day that we had terminated the contract, then Polissya’s club called me and asked about my vision of cooperation.
Everything was resolved literally two days after I collected papers from Dynamo. Before that, there was still an option with LNZ. There was also an option with Tenerife and the Segunda. It would have been nice to end my career there, but the team was at the bottom of the table and was already being relegated to the third league — it was no longer about football. So I understood that there was Polissya in Ukraine, saw what a project it was, what base, what ambitions the club had.
I am now 100% satisfied that I am a Polissya player. I wanted to get a new challenge for myself, prove to myself that I am worth something, fight for European cups, and play in this club. And why not think about the Ukrainian national team?» Andriyevskyi said on Benis Boyko’s YouTube channel.
