Yakovenko is product of youth team systems of FC Arsenal Kyiv, but in July 2010 transferred to other Kyivan club Obolon.

[2] On 9 July 2021 Esbjerg confirmed, that Yakovenko, alongside three teammates, had been removed from the first team and sent down to train with the U19s.

According to Danish media, the squad was very dissatisfied with the coach's methods, describing it as Hyballa was ... photographing players in underpants, punching the players, shaming them in front of their teammates, verbal torture and a training program so hard that the injuries was rolling in.

[6] Yakovenko signed a one-year contract with recently promoted Eliteserien club HamKam on 24 February 2022.

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