Vakulenko is a product of the UFK Kharkiv and FC Shakhtar youth sportive schools.

On 6 June 2022, Ararat-Armenia announced that Vakulenko's contract had expired and he would leave the club.

[1] In Summer 2022, he signed for Pyunik Yerevan just champion of Armenian Premier League in the season 2021–22.

[2] He was called up to play for the 23-man squad of the Ukraine national under-21 football team by trainer Serhiy Kovalets in the Commonwealth of Independent States Cup in January 2014.

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