The latest DIG Locals submission comes from 20 year old Ukrainian rider Dmytro Zaiycev, filmed on the streets of his hometown Kropyvnytskyi. The video took over 5 months to film, in collaboration with filmer Serhii Kovalov.
Results Ukraine National Championship Irpin, Kyiv region, Ukraine 16 - 17 August 2025
Men Park:
1 Anton DVORAK 21 UKR 200 UCI Ranking points
2 Illia STEPURSKYI 22 UKR 160
3 Vadym MITIN 22 UKR 130
4 Denys KOLODRIVSKYI 20 UKR 110
5 Ivan KOSTIN 21 UKR 90
6 Viacheslav SHVETS 26 UKR 70
7 Daniil SHVETS 19 UKR 50
8 Vadym SERMAN 25 UKR 30
Photo by Bart de Jong / FATMX
Check out this video of the Celestials Jam, the first BMX event of 2025 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Participants came from Kyiv, Vyshneve, Kropyvnytskyi, Chernivtsi, Pavlograd, Lozova, Pryluky, Kalynivka, Cherkasy, Kharkiv, and Odesa to ride a wooden street set-up in a municipal building. It's so inspiring to see these guys shred hard and getting their minds off of the war raging in their country!
Ukraine's Andrii Nesterov has been working on this one since 2020 with his friends and filmers Yaroslav Gbag, Sokrat Maslov and David Minorov and damn did he do a great job! From enormous setups to a ridiculously dialed tailwhip game, Andrii certainly isn't scared! Shot on the streets of Kiev and Odessa during the Russian invasion, it shows you just what can get accomplished despite the horrible times the Ukrainian people are living through.
Name: Konsty Rudobashta
Age: 22
Hometown: Poltawa (Ukraine)
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Kunstform Bmx Shop
The favorite list:
-Spot to ride: Tuttlingen Skatepark
-BMX video: Sean Burns Athem 2
Name: Yuri Illuschenko
Age: 18
Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine
-Website: The Come up, FATBMX
-Web video: Fise Bmx
-A person on Instagram: Logan Martin
-Travel destination: New York, USA
-Riders to ride with: Irek Rizaev, Kostya Andreev, Vasya Lukyanenko Artem
Known riders Bruno Hoffmann and Vasya Lukyanenko assembled teams and went on a journey for new spots and impressions. The largest BMX journey to Ukraine has been completed! From August 8 to 14, two rider teams fought for victory in the Red Bull Build The Trick, traveling the country in search of locations for cool stunts, creating new spots. At the head of the teams were Red Bull athletes Bruno Hoffmann from Germany and Ukrainian Vasya Lukyanenko, whose team celebrated the victory. "I consider this project one of the most interesting and useful for the BMX-scene in the history of the development of this discipline in Ukraine. We have invited our country to one of the best street riders in the world. In addition, we gave the chance to other riders to spend a week
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