He won the 2019 Diamond League final in Zurich, with his season best of 2.32 m, which gave him a wild card entry for the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha.

Protsenko won a bronze medal at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, United States.

[3] He said in his interview that he spent nearly 40 days in occupied Kherson Oblast before he was able to safely leave it.

[4] He spent those days in a village where he made improvised facilities to continue his trainings.

After he left Ukraine to get prepared for the Worlds, he first trained in Portugal and then in Spain.