[3] Vasyl Virastyuk competed in the finals of the World's Strongest Man contest in 2003 and 2004.

Savickas would be the second to accomplish this feat after winning the 2009 World's Strongest Man title in Malta.

At the 2008 Arnold Strongman Classic, Virastyuk was forced to withdraw due to a career ending injury which happened during the timber carry event.

[6] On 11 February 2021, Virastyuk was nominated to run in the 28 March 2021 parliamentary by-election for constituency 87, located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, by Servant of the People.

[9] The Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court annulled this decision on 5 June 2021 and ten days later he took the oath of the People's Deputy of Ukraine.