When she was in the fourth grade of elementary school, she took up cross-country skiing together with her twin sister Valentyna.

Since the competition in Ukrainian national team was quite rigorous, only Valja managed to qualify for 2006 Winter Olympics.

But Vita's greatest achievement in this modification of biathlon was in 2012 when she won City-Biathlon in Püttlingen, Germany, which was very popular among leading biathletes.

On 21 February, together with Juliya Dzhyma, Valj Semerenko and Olena Pidhrushna she won the gold medal in the Women's relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi, Russia.

Due to illness, surgery and then pregnancy she missed almost three seasons, returning to competitions only in March 2016.